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It is too absurd to tell you that my brother George is impressed with a belief a vampyre has visited the house." "I never in all my life heard a more circumstantial narrative in favour of so hideous a superstition." "Well, but you cannot believe " "Believe what?" "That the dead can come to life again, and by such a process keep up vitality." "Do you take me for a fool?" "Certainly not."
"But he was there; he said he would be there." "Then he's gone again, for there's nobody there that I know of in the shape of a doctor. I went through every part of the ship I mean the house and the deuce a soul could I find; so as it was rather lonely and uncomfortable, I came away again. 'Who knows, thought I, 'but some blessed vampyre or another may come across me."
As he spoke, the ferryman made a desperate rush at the vampyre, and seized him by the throat, and a violent struggle ensued, in which the superior strength of the ferryman prevailed, and he brought his antagonist to the earth, at the same time bestowing upon him some desperate blows.
Bannerworth entered, also Charles Holland, who both started on seeing the vampyre present, Sir Francis Varney, who was too weak to rise without assistance. "Sir Francis Varney," said Flora, speaking to them as they entered, "has sought refuge here; his life is in peril, and he has no other hope left; you will, I am sure, do what can be done for him." "Mr.
Weber but what do WE care nowadays for "Freischutz" and "Oberon"! Or Marschner's "Hans Heiling" and "Vampyre"! Or even Wagner's "Tannhauser"! That is extinct, although not yet forgotten music.
"I own that it is strange, Henry; but when we come for but a brief moment to reflect upon the circumstances which have occurred, we shall, I think, be able to find some cause even to pity Varney the vampyre." "How?" "Thus, brother.
"What can it be all about? and where, doctor, did you first see this Varney the vampyre?" "In his coffin." Both the admiral and Henry gave starts of surprise as, with one accord, they exclaimed, "Did you say coffin?" "Yes: I tell you, on my word of honour, that the first time in my life I saw ever Sir Francis Varney, was in his coffin."
Then it would have been a strange sight for any indifferent spectator to have seen how they shrunk, one by one, out of the shadow of those ruins; each seeming to be afraid that the vampyre, in some mysterious manner, would catch him if he happened to be the last within their sombre influence; and, when they had all collected in the bright, open space, some little distance beyond, they looked at each other and at the ruins, with dubious expressions of countenance, each, no doubt, wishing that each would suggest something of a consolatory or practicable character.
This was a state of things which continued for many minutes, and then the body showed evident symptoms of so much returning animation, that it was about to rise from his gory bed and mingle once again with the living. "Behold!" said Marchdale "behold!" "Heaven have mercy upon us!" "It is as I said; the beams of the moon have revived the vampyre. You perceive now that there can be no doubt."
"Down with a fool!" thundered Varney, as he struck the fellow a terrific blow, which covered his face with blood, and he fell back into the arms of his companions. A bitter groan and execration arose from them below, and again they shouted, and rushed up headlong. "Down with the vampyre!" was again shouted, and met by a corresponding, but deep guttural sound of "Down with a fool!"
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