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Without being precisely a vampire, a ghoul, a fictitious man, a sort of Faust or Robin des Bois, he partook of the nature of all these anthropomorphic conceptions, according to those persons who were addicted to the fantastic. Occasionally some German would take for realities these ingenious jests of Parisian evil-speaking. The stranger was simply an old man.
This was horrible enough if the vampire were not really the person he represented; but if in any sense it were Karl himself, at least it gave some expectation of a more prolonged existence than her father had taught her to look for; and if love anything like her mother's still lasted, even along with the habits of a vampire, there was something to hope for in the future.
Snakes twenty feet long hung their seductive length from the trees; jaguars volunteered their society through almost impenetrable marshes; vampire bats perched by night with lulling endearments upon the toes of the soldiers. When Stedman describes himself as killing thirty-eight mosquitoes at one stroke, we must perhaps pardon something to the spirit of martyrdom.
Already my cry of indignation had aroused the vampire from his orgy. He stood before me sheepish, grinning, and taunted me, Sir taunted me for my blindness in not recognizing him under the disguise of the so-called Aristide Nicolet. It was a disguise which he had kept by him in case of an emergency when first he decided to start business as a dog thief.
There was a general look of disappointment when this explanation was given, and one said, "Then it was not the vampire?" "Certainly not." "And, after all, only a clock weight." "That's about it." "Why didn't you tell us that at first?" "Because that would have spoilt the story." There was a general murmur of discontent, and, after a few moments one man said, with some vivacity,
That's the next thing to consider." "Does look curious," replied Dr. Blake, "but of course you can be trusted to discover that! But about Annette?" "Something's a little wrong there," responded Rosalie. "Quiet, and dopey, and strange. That," her voice fell to soft contemplation, "is another thing to find out." "We must get her out of there!" he exploded; "away from that vampire!"
Ages ago they tried to get him to compromise for a lump sum down, but he wouldn't. Said he would only spend it, and preferred to get it by the week. Well, by the time we've paid that vampire, there isn't much left out of our profits. That's why we are at the present moment a little understaffed." A frown clouded Mr. Petheram's brow. Roland wondered if he was thinking of Bessie March.
Like the fabled vampire England hangs upon the throat of Ireland, battening on her blood. Populous England, vanishing Ireland! What is the meaning of it? One people remains at home by the millions, the other flies to other lands by the millions. Because the hell-witch is good to her own.
'Did you ever know a man come out to do either, in a chariot and pair, you ridiculous old vampire? said the irritable doctor. 'What do you want, then? demanded the hunchback. 'Will you take yourself off, before I do you a mischief? Curse you! 'As soon as I think proper, said Mr.
Snakes twenty feet long hung their seductive length from the trees; jaguars volunteered their society through almost impenetrable marshes; vampire bats perched by night with lulling endearments upon their toes. When Stedman describes himself as killing thirty-eight mosquitoes at one stroke, we must perhaps pardon something to the spirit of martyrdom.
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