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"Deborah," said Sir Francis Varney, in silvery tones, "you can remove this tray and bring on the next." "Not if I know it," said the admiral "I came to breakfast, and I'll have it; after breakfast I'll pull your nose ay, if you were fifty vampyres, I'd do it." "Dr.
"The family he wishes to marry into is named Bannerworth, and the young lady's name is Flora Bannerworth. When, however, I inform you that a vampyre is in that family, and that if he marries into it, he marries a vampyre, and will have vampyres for children, I trust I have said enough to warn you upon the subject, and to induce you to lose no time in repairing to the spot.
I wonder what the people of Europe will say when I tell them, that The Desert pictured in such frightful colours by the ancients, as teeming with monsters and wild beasts, and every unearthly and uncouth thing and being, not forgetting the dragons, salamanders, vampyres, cockatrices, and fiery-flying serpents, and as such believed in these our enlightened days is a very harmless place, its menagerie being reduced to a few small crows, and now and then a stray butterfly, and a few common house and cheese-and-bacon and fruit flies! these poor little domestic everyday creatures!
In the face of all evidence, he neither will believe in vampyres at all, nor that Varney is anything but some mortal man, like ourselves, in his thoughts, talents, feelings, and modes of life; and with no more power to do any one an injury than we have." "Oh, would that I could think so!" "And I; but, unhappily, we have by far too many, and too conclusive evidences to the contrary."
Do not, with an affected philosophy, doubt all that may happen to be in any degree repugnant to your usual experiences." "I am not one disposed to do so; nor am I prepared to deny that such dreadful beings may exist as vampyres. However, whether or not you belong to so frightful a class of creatures, I do not intend to leave here; but, I will make an agreement with you."
The only individual, and he was a remarkably clever man, who made the slightest remark upon the subject of a practical character, hazarded a suggestion that made confusion worse confounded. He knew something of vampyres. He had travelled abroad, and had heard of them in Germany, as well as in the east, and, to a crowd of wondering and aghast listeners, he said,
Among Slavonic peoples it appears that the foes whom the need-fire is designed to combat are not so much living witches as vampyres and other evil spirits, and the ceremony aims rather at repelling these baleful beings than at actually consuming them in the flames. But for our present purpose these distinctions are immaterial.
"Charles Charles," said Henry, "I cannot of course refuse to you my meed of praise and admiration for your generosity of feeling; but, remember, if we are compelled, despite all our feelings and all our predilections to the contrary, to give in to a belief in the existence of vampyres, why may we not at once receive as the truth all that is recorded of them?" "To what do you allude?" "To this.
"You have, of course, heard something," said Henry to the doctor, as he was pulling on his gloves, "about vampyres." "I certainly have, and I understand that in some countries, particularly Norway and Sweden, the superstition is a very common one." "And in the Levant." "Yes. The ghouls of the Mahometans are of the same description of beings.
You would tell us that our repudiation of it cannot affect the fact. Of that we are aware; but yet will we disbelieve that which a belief in would be enough to drive us mad." "What do you intend to do?" "To keep this supposition to ourselves, in the first place; to guard it most zealously from the ears of Flora." "Do you think she has ever heard of vampyres?"
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