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Many believed that he was yet about the house, while many were of opinion that he had flown away by some mysterious means only possessed by vampyres and such like people. "Fire the house, and burn him out," said one. "Fire the house!"
"You may well doubt the evidence of your own ears, Charles Holland, and wish me to repeat what I said. I say, do you know anything about vampyres?" Charles Holland looked curiously in Henry's face, and the latter immediately added, "I can guess what is passing in your mind at present, and I do not wonder at it. You think I must be mad." "Well, really, Henry, your extraordinary question "
"Have mercy on me! it cannot be any pleasure to you to spill my blood. I am unable to resist I am one man among many, you surely cannot wish to beat me to death?" "We want to hurt no one, except in our own defence, and we won't be made vampyres of because you don't like to die." "No, no; we won't be vampyres," exclaimed the mob, and there arose a great shout from the mob.
It may be as you say, neighbour, and then we be cannibals." "Or vampyres." "There's a pretty thing to think of." By this time some were drunk, some were partially so, and the remainder were crowding into the cellars to get their share of the wine.
"And yet the moonlight is cold." "Ah, but who's to tell what may happen to a vampyre, or what's hot or what's cold?" "Certainly not; oh, dear, no." "And then they have permission to suck the blood of other people, to live themselves, and to make other people vampyres, too." "The lord have mercy upon us!"
"And she might herself actually, when after death she became a vampyre, come and feed on her own children." "Become a vampyre! What, is she going to be a vampyre too?" "My dear sir, don't you know that it is a remarkable fact, as regards the physiology of vampyres, that whoever is bitten by one of those dreadful beings, becomes a vampyre?" "The devil!" "It is a fact, sir."
"I think you may now safely reckon that you have done so. This man who has fled with so much precipitation, had courage." "Unquestionably." "Or else he would have shrunk from coming here at all." "True, but his courage and presence arose from his strong doubts as to the existence of such beings as vampyres."
"Yes, hear him," cried the tall man, waving his arms about like the sails of a windmill. "Yes, hear him. Sons of darkness, you're all vampyres, and are continually sucking the life-blood from each other. No wonder that the evil one has power over you all.
He is running after some of your beastly vampyres somewhere, I'll be bound, and you know where to send for him." "Then you are mistaken; for, indeed, we don't. We want him ourselves, ma'am, and can't find him that's the fact." "It's all very well talking, sir, but if you were a married woman, with a family about you, and the last at the breast, you'd feel very different from what you do now."
"I'd as soon take a ship manned with vampyres as with Frenchmen." Henry started off upon his errand, certainly leaving the admiral and the doctor in rather a critical situation while he was gone; for had Varney the vampyre and the hangman chosen, they could certainly easily have overcome so inefficient a force.
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