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Updated: June 28, 2025
Live! live poor, despised, scorned live in the galleys, but live! so that thought remains since this infernal creature has all my thought is all my thought!" "Jacques," said Polidori, in a grave tone, which strangely contrasted with his habitual bitter irony, "I have seen much suffering, but never tortures that approach yours. He who holds us in his power could not have been more unmerciful.
To meet me in Normandy at such a moment! he thought it was a dream. But continue, my lord; you will see that this infernal Countess d'Orbigny had also her turn of a thunderbolt, thanks to what you told me of her visit to the quack Bradamanti Polidori in the house of the Rue du Temple; for, after all, it is you who act; or, rather, I was only the instrument of your thought."
I was under the sad necessity of relating to him my first suspicions concerning the premature death of my mother suspicions which your highness's knowledge of the previous crimes of Dr. Polidori changed into certainty. "I was obliged, also, to tell my father how my stepmother had carried her hatred even to my marriage, and what had been her object in causing me to marry M. d'Harville.
"Know it then, and be no more surprised at the horror with which you inspire me. After this fatal scene, in which I had threatened the life of my father, I gave up my sword. I was imprisoned with the greatest secrecy. Polidori, through whom our marriage had been concluded, was arrested.
Yes; by fixing my eyes on this glass, soon shall I see Cecily appear. It will not be an illusion a mist; it will be she; I shall find her there, as the sculptor finds the statue in the block of marble." "Where are you going to?" said Polidori, hearing Jacques Ferrand getting up from his bed, for the most profound obscurity still reigned in the apartment. "I go to find Cecily." "You shall not go.
Polidori, Sir Walter, and myself in a bewildered manner; his features expressed deep agony, I read upon his careworn face the violent struggle which tore his heart.
"I thought so at first; but the assertions of her ladyship." "Her head, doubtless, has been weakened by illness, and visionaries always believe in their visions." "I ought to tell you also, sir, that at the moment when I left the chamber of the countess, one of her women, entered precipitately, saying, 'His highness will be here in an hour!" "It is the prince!" thought Polidori.
The trick is too plain." "I hear some one speak, I tell you, and I think I recognize " "You wish to deceive me," said Ferrand, interrupting Polidori; "I am not your dupe." "But, wretch, listen then listen. Ah! do you not hear?" "Let me go Cecily is there she calls me. Do not make me angry, in my turn, I tell you. Take care do you understand? take care." "You shall not go out." "Take care "
Polidori cast a ferocious glance at me; notwithstanding the presence of my father and that of the nurse, I feared that this wretch, seeing his crime almost discovered, would carry matters to extremities. "The surprise of my father and my step-mother was such that the servant retired before they could say a word; I was reassured; in a few moments Sir Walter would be near me.
One of them, the youngest, Polidori, was lost in the Esmeralda, when she sailed for Monterey to procure cattle. The two others were Padre Marini and Padre Antonio. They were both highly accomplished and learned.
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