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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Vampyre; A Tale, by John William Polidori
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+Title: The Vampyre; A Tale
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+Author: John William Polidori
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+Posting Date: October 21, 2009 [EBook #6087]
+Release Date: July, 2004
+First Posted: November 3, 2002
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+                                 THE
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+                               VAMPYRE;
+
+                               A Tale.
+
+                       By John William Polidori
+
+
+
+                               LONDON
+
+                 PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES
+
+                           PATERNOSTER ROW
+
+
+                                1819
+
+              [Entered at Stationers' Hall, March 27, 1819]
+
+           Gillet, Printer, Crown Court, Fleet Street, London.
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+                         EXTRACT OF A LETTER
+
+                             FROM GENEVA.
+                            ______________
+
+"I breathe freely in the neighbourhood of this lake; the ground upon
+which I tread has been subdued from the earliest ages; the principal
+objects which immediately strike my eye, bring to my recollection
+scenes, in which man acted the hero and was the chief object of
+interest. Not to look back to earlier times of battles and sieges,
+here is the bust of Rousseau--here is a house with an inscription
+denoting that the Genevan philosopher first drew breath under its
+roof. A little out of the town is Ferney, the residence of Voltaire;
+where that wonderful, though certainly in many respects contemptible,
+character, received, like the hermits of old, the visits of pilgrims,
+not only from his own nation, but from the farthest boundaries of
+Europe. Here too is Bonnet's abode, and, a few steps beyond, the house
+of that astonishing woman Madame de Stael: perhaps the first of her
+sex, who has really proved its often claimed equality with, the nobler
+man. We have before had women who have written interesting novels and
+poems, in which their tact at observing drawing-room characters has
+availed them; but never since the days of Heloise have those faculties
+which are peculiar to man, been developed as the possible inheritance
+of woman. Though even here, as in the case of Heloise, our sex have
+not been backward in alledging the existence of an Abeilard in the
+person of M. Schlegel as the inspirer of her works. But to proceed:
+upon the same side of the lake, Gibbon, Bonnivard, Bradshaw, and
+others mark, as it were, the stages for our progress; whilst upon the
+other side there is one house, built by Diodati, the friend of Milton,
+which has contained within its walls, for several months, that poet
+whom we have so often read together, and who--if human passions remain
+the same, and human feelings, like chords, on being swept by nature's
+impulses shall vibrate as before--will be placed by posterity in the
+first rank of our English Poets. You must have heard, or the Third
+Canto of Childe Harold will have informed you, that Lord Byron resided
+many months in this neighbourhood. I went with some friends a few days
+ago, after having seen Ferney, to view this mansion. I trod the floors
+with the same feelings of awe and respect as we did, together, those
+of Shakespeare's dwelling at Stratford. I sat down in a chair of the
+saloon, and satisfied myself that I was resting on what he had made
+his constant seat. I found a servant there who had lived with him;
+she, however, gave me but little information. She pointed out his
+bed-chamber upon the same level as the saloon and dining-room, and
+informed me that he retired to rest at three, got up at two, and
+employed himself a long time over his toilette; that he never went to
+sleep without a pair of pistols and a dagger by his side, and that he
+never ate animal food. He apparently spent some part of every day upon
+the lake in an English boat. There is a balcony from the saloon which
+looks upon the lake and the mountain Jura; and I imagine, that it must
+have been hence, he contemplated the storm so magnificently described
+in the Third Canto; for you have from here a most extensive view of
+all the points he has therein depicted. I can fancy him like the
+scathed pine, whilst all around was sunk to repose, still waking to
+observe, what gave but a weak image of the storms which had desolated
+his own breast.
+
+  The sky is changed!--and such a change; Oh, night!
+  And storm and darkness, ye are wond'rous strong,
+  Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light
+  Of a dark eye in woman! Far along
+  From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,
+  Leaps the lire thunder! Not from one lone cloud,
+  But every mountain now hath found a tongue,
+  And Jura answers thro' her misty shroud,
+  Back to the joyous Alps who call to her aloud!
+
+  And this is in the night:--Most glorious night!
+  Thou wer't not sent for slumber! let me be
+  A sharer in thy far and fierce delight,--
+  A portion of the tempest and of me!
+  How the lit lake shines a phosphoric sea,
+  And the big rain comet dancing to the earth!
+  And now again 'tis black,--and now the glee
+  Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain mirth,
+  As if they did rejoice o'er a young; earthquake's birth,
+
+  Now where the swift Rhine cleaves his way between
+  Heights which appear, as lovers who have parted
+  In haste, whose mining depths so intervene,
+  That they can meet no more, tho' broken hearted;
+  Tho' in their souls which thus each other thwarted,
+  Love was the very root of the fond rage
+  Which blighted their life's bloom, and then departed--
+  Itself expired, but leaving; them an age
+  Of years all winter--war within themselves to wage.
+
+I went down to the little port, if I may use the expression, wherein
+his vessel used to lay, and conversed with the cottager, who had the
+care of it. You may smile, but I have my pleasure in thus helping my
+personification of the individual I admire, by attaining to the
+knowledge of those circumstances which were daily around him. I have
+made numerous enquiries in the town concerning him, but can learn
+nothing. He only went into society there once, when M. Pictet took him
+to the house of a lady to spend the evening. They say he is a very
+singular man, and seem to think him very uncivil. Amongst other things
+they relate, that having invited M. Pictet and Bonstetten to dinner,
+he went on the lake to Chillon, leaving a gentleman who travelled with
+him to receive them and make his apologies. Another evening, being
+invited to the house of Lady D---- H----, he promised to attend,
+but upon approaching the windows of her ladyship's villa, and
+perceiving the room to be full of company, he set down his friend,
+desiring him to plead his excuse, and immediately returned home. This
+will serve as a contradiction to the report which you tell me is
+current in England, of his having been avoided by his countrymen on
+the continent. The case happens to be directly the reverse, as he has
+been generally sought by them, though on most occasions, apparently
+without success. It is said, indeed, that upon paying his first visit
+at Coppet, following the servant who had announced his name, he was
+surprised to meet a lady carried out fainting; but before he had been
+seated many minutes, the same lady, who had been so affected at the
+sound of his name, returned and conversed with him a considerable
+time--such is female curiosity and affectation! He visited Coppet
+frequently, and of course associated there with several of his
+countrymen, who evinced no reluctance to meet him whom his enemies
+alone would represent as an outcast.
+
+Though I have been so unsuccessful in this town, I have been more
+fortunate in my enquiries elsewhere. There is a society three or four
+miles from Geneva, the centre of which is the Countess of Breuss, a
+Russian lady, well acquainted with the agrémens de la Société, and who
+has collected them round herself at her mansion. It was chiefly here,
+I find, that the gentleman who travelled with Lord Byron, as
+physician, sought for society. He used almost every day to cross the
+lake by himself, in one of their flat-bottomed boats, and return after
+passing the evening with his friends, about eleven or twelve at night,
+often whilst the storms were raging in the circling summits of the
+mountains around. As he became intimate, from long acquaintance, with
+several of the families in this neighbourhood, I have gathered from
+their accounts some excellent traits of his lordship's character,
+which I will relate to you at some future opportunity. I must,
+however, free him from one imputation attached to him--of having in
+his house two sisters as the partakers of his revels. This is, like
+many other charges which have been brought against his lordship,
+entirely destitute of truth. His only companion was the physician I
+have already mentioned. The report originated from the following
+circumstance: Mr. Percy Bysshe Shelly, a gentleman well known for
+extravagance of doctrine, and for his daring, in their profession,
+even to sign himself with the title of ATHeos in the Album at
+Chamouny, having taken a house below, in which he resided with Miss M.
+W. Godwin and Miss Clermont, (the daughters of the celebrated Mr.
+Godwin) they were frequently visitors at Diodati, and were often seen
+upon the lake with his Lordship, which gave rise to the report, the
+truth of which is here positively denied.
+
+Among other things which the lady, from whom I procured these
+anecdotes, related to me, she mentioned the outline of a ghost story
+by Lord Byron. It appears that one evening Lord B., Mr. P. B. Shelly,
+the two ladies and the gentleman before alluded to, after having
+perused a German work, which was entitled Phantasmagoriana, began
+relating ghost stories; when his lordship having recited the beginning
+of Christabel, then unpublished, the whole took so strong a hold of
+Mr. Shelly's mind, that he suddenly started up and ran out of the
+room. The physician and Lord Byron followed, and discovered him
+leaning against a mantle-piece, with cold drops of perspiration
+trickling down his face. After having given him something to refresh
+him, upon enquiring into the cause of his alarm, they found that his
+wild imagination having pictured to him the bosom of one of the ladies
+with eyes (which was reported of a lady in the neighbourhood where he
+lived) he was obliged to leave the room in order to destroy the
+impression. It was afterwards proposed, in the course of conversation,
+that each of the company present should write a tale depending upon
+some supernatural agency, which was undertaken by Lord B., the
+physician, and Miss M. W. Godwin.[1] My friend, the lady above
+referred to, had in her possession the outline of each of these
+stories; I obtained them as a great favour, and herewith forward them
+to you, as I was assured you would feel as much curiosity as myself,
+to peruse the ebauches of so great a genius, and those immediately
+under his influence."
+
+
+
+[1] Since published under the title of "Frankenstein; or, The Modern
+Prometheus."
+
+
+
+
+                             THE VAMPYRE.
+  ________________________________________________________________
+
+                            INTRODUCTION.
+                              __________
+
+THE superstition upon which this tale is founded is very general in
+the East. Among the Arabians it appears to be common: it did not,
+however, extend itself to the Greeks until after the establishment of
+Christianity; and it has only assumed its present form since the
+division of the Latin and Greek churches; at which time, the idea
+becoming prevalent, that a Latin body could not corrupt if buried in
+their territory, it gradually increased, and formed the subject of
+many wonderful stories, still extant, of the dead rising from their
+graves, and feeding upon the blood of the young and beautiful. In the
+West it spread, with some slight variation, all over Hungary, Poland,
+Austria, and Lorraine, where the belief existed, that vampyres nightly
+imbibed a certain portion of the blood of their victims, who became
+emaciated, lost their strength, and speedily died of consumptions;
+whilst these human blood-suckers fattened--and their veins became
+distended to such a state of repletion, as to cause the blood to flow
+from all the passages of their bodies, and even from the very pores of
+their skins.
+
+In the London Journal, of March, 1732, is a curious, and, of course,
+credible account of a particular case of vampyrism, which is stated to
+have occurred at Madreyga, in Hungary. It appears, that upon an
+examination of the commander-in-chief and magistrates of the place,
+they positively and unanimously affirmed, that, about five years
+before, a certain Heyduke, named Arnold Paul, had been heard to say,
+that, at Cassovia, on the frontiers of the Turkish Servia, he had been
+tormented by a vampyre, but had found a way to rid himself of the
+evil, by eating some of the earth out of the vampyre's grave, and
+rubbing himself with his blood. This precaution, however, did not
+prevent him from becoming a vampyre[2] himself; for, about twenty or
+thirty days after his death and burial, many persons complained of
+having been tormented by him, and a deposition was made, that four
+persons had been deprived of life by his attacks. To prevent further
+mischief, the inhabitants having consulted their Hadagni,[3] took up
+the body, and found it (as is supposed to be usual in cases of
+vampyrism) fresh, and entirely free from corruption, and emitting at
+the mouth, nose, and ears, pure and florid blood. Proof having been
+thus obtained, they resorted to the accustomed remedy. A stake was
+driven entirely through the heart and body of Arnold Paul, at which he
+is reported to have cried out as dreadfully as if he had been alive.
+This done, they cut off his head, burned his body, and threw the ashes
+into his grave. The same measures were adopted with the corses of
+those persons who had previously died from vampyrism, lest they
+should, in their turn, become agents upon others who survived them.
+
+
+
+[2] The universal belief is, that a person sucked by a vampyre becomes a
+vampyre himself, and sucks in his turn.
+
+[3] Chief bailiff.
+
+
+
+This monstrous rodomontade is here related, because it seems better
+adapted to illustrate the subject of the present observations than any
+other instance which could be adduced. In many parts of Greece it is
+considered as a sort of punishment after death, for some heinous crime
+committed whilst in existence, that the deceased is not only doomed to
+vampyrise, but compelled to confine his infernal visitations solely to
+those beings he loved most while upon earth--those to whom he was bound
+by ties of kindred and affection.--A supposition alluded to in the
+"Giaour."
+
+  But first on earth, as Vampyre sent,
+  Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent;
+  Then ghastly haunt the native place,
+  And suck the blood of all thy race;
+  There from thy daughter, sister, wife,
+  At midnight drain the stream of life;
+  Yet loathe the banquet which perforce
+  Must feed thy livid living corse,
+  Thy victims, ere they yet expire,
+  Shall know the demon for their sire;
+  As cursing thee, thou cursing them,
+  Thy flowers are withered on the stem.
+  But one that for thy crime must fall,
+  The youngest, best beloved of all,
+  Shall bless thee with a father's name--
+  That word shall wrap thy heart in flame!
+  Yet thou must end thy task and mark
+  Her cheek's last tinge--her eye's last spark,
+  And the last glassy glance must view
+  Which freezes o'er its lifeless blue;
+  Then with unhallowed hand shall tear
+  The tresses of her yellow hair,
+  Of which, in life a lock when shorn
+  Affection's fondest pledge was worn--
+  But now is borne away by thee
+  Memorial of thine agony!
+  Yet with thine own best blood shall drip;
+  Thy gnashing tooth, and haggard lip;
+  Then stalking to thy sullen grave,
+  Go--and with Gouls and Afrits rave,
+  Till these in horror shrink away
+  From spectre more accursed than they.
+
+Mr. Southey has also introduced in his wild but beautiful poem of
+"Thalaba," the vampyre corse of the Arabian maid Oneiza, who is
+represented as having returned from the grave for the purpose of
+tormenting him she best loved whilst in existence. But this cannot be
+supposed to have resulted from the sinfulness of her life, she being
+pourtrayed throughout the whole of the tale as a complete type of
+purity and innocence. The veracious Tournefort gives a long account in
+his travels of several astonishing cases of vampyrism, to which he
+pretends to have been an eyewitness; and Calmet, in his great work
+upon this subject, besides a variety of anecdotes, and traditionary
+narratives illustrative of its effects, has put forth some learned
+dissertations, tending to prove it to be a classical, as well as
+barbarian error.
+
+Many curious and interesting notices on this singularly horrible
+superstition might be added; though the present may suffice for the
+limits of a note, necessarily devoted to explanation, and which may
+now be concluded by merely remarking, that though the term Vampyre is
+the one in most general acceptation, there are several others
+synonymous with it, made use of in various parts of the world: as
+Vroucolocha, Vardoulacha, Goul, Broucoloka, &c.
+
+
+  ________________________________________________________________
+
+                             THE VAMPYRE.
+                              __________
+
+IT happened that in the midst of the dissipations attendant upon a
+London winter, there appeared at the various parties of the leaders of
+the ton a nobleman, more remarkable for his singularities, than his
+rank. He gazed upon the mirth around him, as if he could not
+participate therein. Apparently, the light laughter of the fair only
+attracted his attention, that he might by a look quell it, and throw
+fear into those breasts where thoughtlessness reigned. Those who felt
+this sensation of awe, could not explain whence it arose: some
+attributed it to the dead grey eye, which, fixing upon the object's
+face, did not seem to penetrate, and at one glance to pierce through
+to the inward workings of the heart; but fell upon the cheek with a
+leaden ray that weighed upon the skin it could not pass. His
+peculiarities caused him to be invited to every house; all wished to
+see him, and those who had been accustomed to violent excitement, and
+now felt the weight of ennui, were pleased at having something in
+their presence capable of engaging their attention. In spite of the
+deadly hue of his face, which never gained a warmer tint, either from
+the blush of modesty, or from the strong emotion of passion, though
+its form and outline were beautiful, many of the female hunters after
+notoriety attempted to win his attentions, and gain, at least, some
+marks of what they might term affection: Lady Mercer, who had been the
+mockery of every monster shewn in drawing-rooms since her marriage,
+threw herself in his way, and did all but put on the dress of a
+mountebank, to attract his notice:--though in vain:--when she
+stood before him, though his eyes were apparently fixed upon her's,
+still it seemed as if they were unperceived;--even her unappalled
+impudence was baffled, and she left the field. But though the common
+adultress could not influence even the guidance of his eyes, it was
+not that the female sex was indifferent to him: yet such was the
+apparent caution with which he spoke to the virtuous wife and innocent
+daughter, that few knew he ever addressed himself to females. He had,
+however, the reputation of a winning tongue; and whether it was that
+it even overcame the dread of his singular character, or that they
+were moved by his apparent hatred of vice, he was as often among those
+females who form the boast of their sex from their domestic virtues,
+as among those who sully it by their vices.
+
+About the same time, there came to London a young gentleman of the
+name of Aubrey: he was an orphan left with an only sister in the
+possession of great wealth, by parents who died while he was yet in
+childhood. Left also to himself by guardians, who thought it their
+duty merely to take care of his fortune, while they relinquished the
+more important charge of his mind to the care of mercenary subalterns,
+he cultivated more his imagination than his judgment. He had, hence,
+that high romantic feeling of honour and candour, which daily ruins so
+many milliners' apprentices. He believed all to sympathise with
+virtue, and thought that vice was thrown in by Providence merely for
+the picturesque effect of the scene, as we see in romances: he thought
+that the misery of a cottage merely consisted in the vesting of
+clothes, which were as warm, but which were better adapted to the
+painter's eye by their irregular folds and various coloured patches.
+He thought, in fine, that the dreams of poets were the realities of
+life. He was handsome, frank, and rich: for these reasons, upon his
+entering into the gay circles, many mothers surrounded him, striving
+which should describe with least truth their languishing or romping
+favourites: the daughters at the same time, by their brightening
+countenances when he approached, and by their sparkling eyes, when he
+opened his lips, soon led him into false notions of his talents and
+his merit. Attached as he was to the romance of his solitary hours,
+he was startled at finding, that, except in the tallow and wax candles
+that flickered, not from the presence of a ghost, but from want of
+snuffing, there was no foundation in real life for any of that
+congeries of pleasing pictures and descriptions contained in those
+volumes, from which he had formed his study. Finding, however, some
+compensation in his gratified vanity, he was about to relinquish his
+dreams, when the extraordinary being we have above described, crossed
+him in his career.
+
+He watched him; and the very impossibility of forming an idea of the
+character of a man entirely absorbed in himself, who gave few other
+signs of his observation of external objects, than the tacit assent to
+their existence, implied by the avoidance of their contact: allowing
+his imagination to picture every thing that flattered its propensity
+to extravagant ideas, he soon formed this object into the hero of a
+romance, and determined to observe the offspring of his fancy, rather
+than the person before him. He became acquainted with him, paid him
+attentions, and so far advanced upon his notice, that his presence was
+always recognised. He gradually learnt that Lord Ruthven's affairs
+were embarrassed, and soon found, from the notes of preparation in
+---- Street, that he was about to travel. Desirous of gaining some
+information respecting this singular character, who, till now, had
+only whetted his curiosity, he hinted to his guardians, that it was
+time for him to perform the tour, which for many generations has been
+thought necessary to enable the young to take some rapid steps in the
+career of vice towards putting themselves upon an equality with the
+aged, and not allowing them to appear as if fallen from the skies,
+whenever scandalous intrigues are mentioned as the subjects of
+pleasantry or of praise, according to the degree of skill shewn in
+carrying them on. They consented: and Aubrey immediately mentioning
+his intentions to Lord Ruthven, was surprised to receive from him a
+proposal to join him. Flattered by such a mark of esteem from him,
+who, apparently, had nothing in common with other men, he gladly
+accepted it, and in a few days they had passed the circling waters.
+
+Hitherto, Aubrey had had no opportunity of studying Lord Ruthven's
+character, and now he found, that, though many more of his actions
+were exposed to his view, the results offered different conclusions
+from the apparent motives to his conduct. His companion was profuse
+in his liberality;--the idle, the vagabond, and the beggar, received
+from his hand more than enough to relieve their immediate wants. But
+Aubrey could not avoid remarking, that it was not upon the virtuous,
+reduced to indigence by the misfortunes attendant even upon virtue,
+that he bestowed his alms;--these were sent from the door with
+hardly suppressed sneers; but when the profligate came to ask
+something, not to relieve his wants, but to allow him to wallow in his
+lust, or to sink him still deeper in his iniquity, he was sent away
+with rich charity. This was, however, attributed by him to the greater
+importunity of the vicious, which generally prevails over the retiring
+bashfulness of the virtuous indigent. There was one circumstance about
+the charity of his Lordship, which was still more impressed upon his
+mind: all those upon whom it was bestowed, inevitably found that there
+was a curse upon it, for they were all either led to the scaffold, or
+sunk to the lowest and the most abject misery. At Brussels and other
+towns through which they passed, Aubrey was surprized at the apparent
+eagerness with which his companion sought for the centres of all
+fashionable vice; there he entered into all the spirit of the faro
+table: he betted, and always gambled with success, except where the
+known sharper was his antagonist, and then he lost even more than he
+gained; but it was always with the same unchanging face, with which he
+generally watched the society around: it was not, however, so when he
+encountered the rash youthful novice, or the luckless father of a
+numerous family; then his very wish seemed fortune's law--this
+apparent abstractedness of mind was laid aside, and his eyes sparkled
+with more fire than that of the cat whilst dallying with the
+half-dead mouse. In every town, he left the formerly affluent youth,
+torn from the circle he adorned, cursing, in the solitude of a
+dungeon, the fate that had drawn him within the reach of this fiend;
+whilst many a father sat frantic, amidst the speaking looks of mute
+hungry children, without a single farthing of his late immense wealth,
+wherewith to buy even sufficient to satisfy their present craving. Yet
+he took no money from the gambling table; but immediately lost, to the
+ruiner of many, the last gilder he had just snatched from the
+convulsive grasp of the innocent: this might but be the result of a
+certain degree of knowledge, which was not, however, capable of
+combating the cunning of the more experienced. Aubrey often wished to
+represent this to his friend, and beg him to resign that charity and
+pleasure which proved the ruin of all, and did not tend to his own
+profit;--but he delayed it--for each day he hoped his friend would
+give him some opportunity of speaking frankly and openly to him;
+however, this never occurred. Lord Ruthven in his carriage, and amidst
+the various wild and rich scenes of nature, was always the same: his
+eye spoke less than his lip; and though Aubrey was near the object of
+his curiosity, he obtained no greater gratification from it than the
+constant excitement of vainly wishing to break that mystery, which to
+his exalted imagination began to assume the appearance of something
+supernatural.
+
+They soon arrived at Rome, and Aubrey for a time lost sight of his
+companion; he left him in daily attendance upon the morning circle of
+an Italian countess, whilst he went in search of the memorials of
+another almost deserted city. Whilst he was thus engaged, letters
+arrived from England, which he opened with eager impatience; the first
+was from his sister, breathing nothing but affection; the others were
+from his guardians, the latter astonished him; if it had before
+entered into his imagination that there was an evil power resident in
+his companion, these seemed to give him sufficient reason for the
+belief. His guardians insisted upon his immediately leaving his
+friend, and urged, that his character was dreadfully vicious, for that
+the possession of irresistible powers of seduction, rendered his
+licentious habits more dangerous to society. It had been discovered,
+that his contempt for the adultress had not originated in hatred of
+her character; but that he had required, to enhance his gratification,
+that his victim, the partner of his guilt, should be hurled from the
+pinnacle of unsullied virtue, down to the lowest abyss of infamy and
+degradation: in fine, that all those females whom he had sought,
+apparently on account of their virtue, had, since his departure,
+thrown even the mask aside, and had not scrupled to expose the whole
+deformity of their vices to the public gaze.
+
+Aubrey determined upon leaving one, whose character had not yet shown
+a single bright point on which to rest the eye. He resolved to invent
+some plausible pretext for abandoning him altogether, purposing, in
+the mean while, to watch him more closely, and to let no slight
+circumstances pass by unnoticed. He entered into the same circle, and
+soon perceived, that his Lordship was endeavouring to work upon the
+inexperience of the daughter of the lady whose house he chiefly
+frequented. In Italy, it is seldom that an unmarried female is met
+with in society; he was therefore obliged to carry on his plans in
+secret; but Aubrey's eye followed him in all his windings, and soon
+discovered that an assignation had been appointed, which would most
+likely end in the ruin of an innocent, though thoughtless girl. Losing
+no time, he entered the apartment of Lord Ruthven, and abruptly asked
+him his intentions with respect to the lady, informing him at the same
+time that he was aware of his being about to meet her that very night.
+Lord Ruthven answered, that his intentions were such as he supposed
+all would have upon such an occasion; and upon being pressed whether
+he intended to marry her, merely laughed. Aubrey retired; and,
+immediately writing a note, to say, that from that moment he must
+decline accompanying his Lordship in the remainder of their proposed
+tour, he ordered his servant to seek other apartments, and calling
+upon the mother of the lady, informed her of all he knew, not only
+with regard to her daughter, but also concerning the character of his
+Lordship. The assignation was prevented. Lord Ruthven next day merely
+sent his servant to notify his complete assent to a separation; but
+did not hint any suspicion of his plans having been foiled by Aubrey's
+interposition.
+
+Having left Rome, Aubrey directed his steps towards Greece, and
+crossing the Peninsula, soon found himself at Athens. He then fixed
+his residence in the house of a Greek; and soon occupied himself in
+tracing the faded records of ancient glory upon monuments that
+apparently, ashamed of chronicling the deeds of freemen only before
+slaves, had hidden themselves beneath the sheltering soil or many
+coloured lichen. Under the same roof as himself, existed a being, so
+beautiful and delicate, that she might have formed the model for a
+painter wishing to pourtray on canvass the promised hope of the
+faithful in Mahomet's paradise, save that her eyes spoke too much mind
+for any one to think she could belong to those who had no souls. As
+she danced upon the plain, or tripped along the mountain's side, one
+would have thought the gazelle a poor type of her beauties; for who
+would have exchanged her eye, apparently the eye of animated nature,
+for that sleepy luxurious look of the animal suited but to the taste
+of an epicure. The light step of Ianthe often accompanied Aubrey in
+his search after antiquities, and often would the unconscious girl,
+engaged in the pursuit of a Kashmere butterfly, show the whole beauty
+of her form, floating as it were upon the wind, to the eager gaze of
+him, who forgot the letters he had just decyphered upon an almost
+effaced tablet, in the contemplation of her sylph-like figure. Often
+would her tresses falling, as she flitted around, exhibit in the sun's
+ray such delicately brilliant and swiftly fading hues, it might well
+excuse the forgetfulness of the antiquary, who let escape from his
+mind the very object he had before thought of vital importance to the
+proper interpretation of a passage in Pausanias. But why attempt to
+describe charms which all feel, but none can appreciate?--It was
+innocence, youth, and beauty, unaffected by crowded drawing-rooms and
+stifling balls. Whilst he drew those remains of which he wished to
+preserve a memorial for his future hours, she would stand by, and
+watch the magic effects of his pencil, in tracing the scenes of her
+native place; she would then describe to him the circling dance upon
+the open plain, would paint, to him in all the glowing colours of
+youthful memory, the marriage pomp she remembered viewing in her
+infancy; and then, turning to subjects that had evidently made a
+greater impression upon her mind, would tell him all the supernatural
+tales of her nurse. Her earnestness and apparent belief of what she
+narrated, excited the interest even of Aubrey; and often as she told
+him the tale of the living vampyre, who had passed years amidst his
+friends, and dearest ties, forced every year, by feeding upon the life
+of a lovely female to prolong his existence for the ensuing months,
+his blood would run cold, whilst he attempted to laugh her out of such
+idle and horrible fantasies; but Ianthe cited to him the names of old
+men, who had at last detected one living among themselves, after
+several of their near relatives and children had been found marked
+with the stamp of the fiend's appetite; and when she found him so
+incredulous, she begged of him to believe her, for it had been,
+remarked, that those who had dared to question their existence, always
+had some proof given, which obliged them, with grief and
+heartbreaking, to confess it was true. She detailed to him the
+traditional appearance of these monsters, and his horror was
+increased, by hearing a pretty accurate description of Lord Ruthven;
+he, however, still persisted in persuading her, that there could be no
+truth in her fears, though at the same time he wondered at the many
+coincidences which had all tended to excite a belief in the
+supernatural power of Lord Ruthven.
+
+Aubrey began to attach himself more and more to Ianthe; her innocence,
+so contrasted with all the affected virtues of the women among whom he
+had sought for his vision of romance, won his heart; and while he
+ridiculed the idea of a young man of English habits, marrying an
+uneducated Greek girl, still he found himself more and more attached
+to the almost fairy form before him. He would tear himself at times
+from her, and, forming a plan for some antiquarian research, he would
+depart, determined not to return until his object was attained; but he
+always found it impossible to fix his attention upon the ruins around
+him, whilst in his mind he retained an image that seemed alone the
+rightful possessor of his thoughts. Ianthe was unconscious of his
+love, and was ever the same frank infantile being he had first known.
+She always seemed to part from him with reluctance; but it was because
+she had no longer any one with whom she could visit her favourite
+haunts, whilst her guardian was occupied in sketching or uncovering
+some fragment which had yet escaped the destructive hand of time. She
+had appealed to her parents on the subject of Vampyres, and they both,
+with several present, affirmed their existence, pale with horror at
+the very name. Soon after, Aubrey determined to proceed upon one of
+his excursions, which was to detain him for a few hours; when they
+heard the name of the place, they all at once begged of him not to
+return at night, as he must necessarily pass through a wood, where no
+Greek would ever remain, after the day had closed, upon any
+consideration. They described it as the resort of the vampyres in
+their nocturnal orgies, and denounced the most heavy evils as
+impending upon him who dared to cross their path. Aubrey made light of
+their representations, and tried to laugh them out of the idea; but
+when he saw them shudder at his daring thus to mock a superior,
+infernal power, the very name of which apparently made their blood
+freeze, he was silent.
+
+Next morning Aubrey set off upon his excursion unattended; he was
+surprised to observe the melancholy face of his host, and was
+concerned to find that his words, mocking the belief of those horrible
+fiends, had inspired them with such terror. When he was about to
+depart, Ianthe came to the side of his horse, and earnestly begged of
+him to return, ere night allowed the power of these beings to be put
+in action;--he promised. He was, however, so occupied in his
+research, that he did not perceive that day-light would soon end, and
+that in the horizon there was one of those specks which, in the warmer
+climates, so rapidly gather into a tremendous mass, and pour all their
+rage upon the devoted country.--He at last, however, mounted his
+horse, determined to make up by speed for his delay: but it was too
+late. Twilight, in these southern climates, is almost unknown;
+immediately the sun sets, night begins: and ere he had advanced far,
+the power of the storm was above--its echoing thunders had scarcely
+an interval of rest--its thick heavy rain forced its way through the
+canopying foliage, whilst the blue forked lightning seemed to fall and
+radiate at his very feet. Suddenly his horse took fright, and he was
+carried with dreadful rapidity through the entangled forest. The
+animal at last, through fatigue, stopped, and he found, by the glare
+of lightning, that he was in the neighbourhood of a hovel that hardly
+lifted itself up from the masses of dead leaves and brushwood which
+surrounded it. Dismounting, he approached, hoping to find some one to
+guide him to the town, or at least trusting to obtain shelter from the
+pelting of the storm. As he approached, the thunders, for a moment
+silent, allowed him to hear the dreadful shrieks of a woman mingling
+with the stifled, exultant mockery of a laugh, continued in one almost
+unbroken sound;--he was startled: but, roused by the thunder which
+again rolled over his head, he, with a sudden effort, forced open the
+door of the hut. He found himself in utter darkness: the sound,
+however, guided him. He was apparently unperceived; for, though he
+called, still the sounds continued, and no notice was taken of him. He
+found himself in contact with some one, whom he immediately seized;
+when a voice cried, "Again baffled!" to which a loud laugh succeeded;
+and he felt himself grappled by one whose strength seemed superhuman:
+determined to sell his life as dearly as he could, he struggled; but
+it was in vain: he was lifted from his feet and hurled with enormous
+force against the ground:--his enemy threw himself upon him, and
+kneeling upon his breast, had placed his hands upon his throat--when
+the glare of many torches penetrating through the hole that gave
+light in the day, disturbed him;--he instantly rose, and, leaving his
+prey, rushed through the door, and in a moment the crashing of the
+branches, as he broke through the wood, was no longer heard. The storm
+was now still; and Aubrey, incapable of moving, was soon heard by
+those without. They entered; the light of their torches fell upon the
+mud walls, and the thatch loaded on every individual straw with heavy
+flakes of soot. At the desire of Aubrey they searched for her who had
+attracted him by her cries; he was again left in darkness; but what
+was his horror, when the light of the torches once more burst upon
+him, to perceive the airy form of his fair conductress brought in a
+lifeless corse. He shut his eyes, hoping that it was but a vision
+arising from his disturbed imagination; but he again saw the same
+form, when he unclosed them, stretched by his side. There was no
+colour upon her cheek, not even upon her lip; yet there was a
+stillness about her face that seemed almost as attaching as the life
+that once dwelt there:--upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon
+her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein:--to this
+the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "A
+Vampyre! a Vampyre!" A litter was quickly formed, and Aubrey was laid
+by the side of her who had lately been to him the object of so many
+bright and fairy visions, now fallen with the flower of life that had
+died within her. He knew not what his thoughts were--his mind was
+benumbed and seemed to shun reflection, and take refuge in
+vacancy--he held almost unconsciously in his hand a naked dagger of a
+particular construction, which had been found in the hut. They were
+soon met by different parties who had been engaged in the search of
+her whom a mother had missed. Their lamentable cries, as they
+approached the city, forewarned the parents of some dreadful
+catastrophe. --To describe their grief would be impossible; but when
+they ascertained the cause of their child's death, they looked at
+Aubrey, and pointed to the corse. They were inconsolable; both died
+broken-hearted.
+
+Aubrey being put to bed was seized with a most violent fever, and was
+often delirious; in these intervals he would call upon Lord Ruthven
+and upon Ianthe--by some unaccountable combination he seemed to beg
+of his former companion to spare the being he loved. At other times he
+would imprecate maledictions upon his head, and curse him as her
+destroyer. Lord Ruthven, chanced at this time to arrive at Athens,
+and, from whatever motive, upon hearing of the state of Aubrey,
+immediately placed himself in the same house, and became his constant
+attendant. When the latter recovered from his delirium, he was
+horrified and startled at the sight of him whose image he had now
+combined with that of a Vampyre; but Lord Ruthven, by his kind words,
+implying almost repentance for the fault that had caused their
+separation, and still more by the attention, anxiety, and care which
+he showed, soon reconciled him to his presence. His lordship seemed
+quite changed; he no longer appeared that apathetic being who had so
+astonished Aubrey; but as soon as his convalescence began to be rapid,
+he again gradually retired into the same state of mind, and Aubrey
+perceived no difference from the former man, except that at times he
+was surprised to meet his gaze fixed intently upon him, with a smile
+of malicious exultation playing upon his lips: he knew not why, but
+this smile haunted him. During the last stage of the invalid's
+recovery, Lord Ruthven was apparently engaged in watching the tideless
+waves raised by the cooling breeze, or in marking the progress of
+those orbs, circling, like our world, the moveless sun;--indeed, he
+appeared to wish to avoid the eyes of all.
+
+Aubrey's mind, by this shock, was much weakened, and that elasticity
+of spirit which had once so distinguished him now seemed to have fled
+for ever. He was now as much a lover of solitude and silence as Lord
+Ruthven; but much as he wished for solitude, his mind could not find
+it in the neighbourhood of Athens; if he sought it amidst the ruins he
+had formerly frequented, Ianthe's form stood by his side--if he
+sought it in the woods, her light step would appear wandering amidst
+the underwood, in quest of the modest violet; then suddenly turning
+round, would show, to his wild imagination, her pale face and wounded
+throat, with a meek smile upon her lips. He determined to fly scenes,
+every feature of which created such bitter associations in his mind.
+He proposed to Lord Ruthven, to whom he held himself bound by the
+tender care he had taken of him during his illness, that they should
+visit those parts of Greece neither had yet seen. They travelled in
+every direction, and sought every spot to which a recollection could
+be attached: but though they thus hastened from place to place, yet
+they seemed not to heed what they gazed upon. They heard much of
+robbers, but they gradually began to slight these reports, which they
+imagined were only the invention of individuals, whose interest it was
+to excite the generosity of those whom they defended from pretended
+dangers. In consequence of thus neglecting the advice of the
+inhabitants, on one occasion they travelled with only a few guards,
+more to serve as guides than as a defence. Upon entering, however, a
+narrow defile, at the bottom of which was the bed of a torrent, with
+large masses of rock brought down from the neighbouring precipices,
+they had reason to repent their negligence; for scarcely were the
+whole of the party engaged in the narrow pass, when they were startled
+by the whistling of bullets close to their heads, and by the echoed
+report of several guns. In an instant their guards had left them, and,
+placing themselves behind rocks, had begun to fire in the direction
+whence the report came. Lord Ruthven and Aubrey, imitating their
+example, retired for a moment behind the sheltering turn of the
+defile: but ashamed of being thus detained by a foe, who with
+insulting shouts bade them advance, and being exposed to unresisting
+slaughter, if any of the robbers should climb above and take them in
+the rear, they determined at once to rush forward in search of the
+enemy. Hardly had they lost the shelter of the rock, when Lord Ruthven
+received a shot in the shoulder, which brought him to the ground.
+Aubrey hastened to his assistance; and, no longer heeding the contest
+or his own peril, was soon surprised by seeing the robbers' faces
+around him--his guards having, upon Lord Ruthven's being wounded,
+immediately thrown up their arms and surrendered.
+
+By promises of great reward, Aubrey soon induced them to convey his
+wounded friend to a neighbouring cabin; and having agreed upon a
+ransom, he was no more disturbed by their presence--they being
+content merely to guard the entrance till their comrade should return
+with the promised sum, for which he had an order. Lord Ruthven's
+strength rapidly decreased; in two days mortification ensued, and
+death seemed advancing with hasty steps. His conduct and appearance
+had not changed; he seemed as unconscious of pain as he had been of
+the objects about him: but towards the close of the last evening, his
+mind became apparently uneasy, and his eye often fixed upon Aubrey,
+who was induced to offer his assistance with more than usual
+earnestness--"Assist me! you may save me--you may do more than
+that--I mean not my life, I heed the death of my existence as little
+as that of the passing day; but you may save my honour, your friend's
+honour."--"How? tell me how? I would do any thing," replied Aubrey.--"I
+need but little--my life ebbs apace--I cannot explain the
+whole--but if you would conceal all you know of me, my honour were
+free from stain in the world's mouth--and if my death were unknown
+for some time in England--I--I--but life."--"It shall not be
+known."--"Swear!" cried the dying man, raising himself with exultant
+violence, "Swear by all your soul reveres, by all your nature fears,
+swear that, for a year and a day you will not impart your knowledge of
+my crimes or death to any living being in any way, whatever may
+happen, or whatever you may see. "--His eyes seemed bursting from
+their sockets: "I swear!" said Aubrey; he sunk laughing upon his
+pillow, and breathed no more.
+
+Aubrey retired to rest, but did not sleep; the many circumstances
+attending his acquaintance with this man rose upon his mind, and he
+knew not why; when he remembered his oath a cold shivering came over
+him, as if from the presentiment of something horrible awaiting him.
+Rising early in the morning, he was about to enter the hovel in which
+he had left the corpse, when a robber met him, and informed him that
+it was no longer there, having been conveyed by himself and comrades,
+upon his retiring, to the pinnacle of a neighbouring mount, according
+to a promise they had given his lordship, that it should be exposed to
+the first cold ray of the moon that rose after his death. Aubrey
+astonished, and taking several of the men, determined to go and bury
+it upon the spot where it lay. But, when he had mounted to the summit
+he found no trace of either the corpse or the clothes, though the
+robbers swore they pointed out the identical rock on which they had
+laid the body. For a time his mind was bewildered in conjectures, but
+he at last returned, convinced that they had buried the corpse for the
+sake of the clothes.
+
+Weary of a country in which he had met with such terrible misfortunes,
+and in which all apparently conspired to heighten that superstitious
+melancholy that had seized upon his mind, he resolved to leave it, and
+soon arrived at Smyrna. While waiting for a vessel to convey him to
+Otranto, or to Naples, he occupied himself in arranging those effects
+he had with him belonging to Lord Ruthven. Amongst other things there
+was a case containing several weapons of offence, more or less adapted
+to ensure the death of the victim. There were several daggers and
+ataghans. Whilst turning them over, and examining their curious forms,
+what was his surprise at finding a sheath apparently ornamented in the
+same style as the dagger discovered in the fatal hut--he
+shuddered--hastening to gain further proof, he found the weapon, and
+his horror may be imagined when he discovered that it fitted, though
+peculiarly shaped, the sheath he held in his hand. His eyes seemed to
+need no further certainty--they seemed gazing to be bound to the
+dagger; yet still he wished to disbelieve; but the particular form,
+the same varying tints upon the haft and sheath were alike in
+splendour on both, and left no room for doubt; there were also drops
+of blood on each.
+
+He left Smyrna, and on his way home, at Rome, his first inquiries were
+concerning the lady he had attempted to snatch from Lord Ruthven's
+seductive arts. Her parents were in distress, their fortune ruined,
+and she had not been heard of since the departure of his lordship.
+Aubrey's mind became almost broken under so many repeated horrors; he
+was afraid that this lady had fallen a victim to the destroyer of
+Ianthe. He became morose and silent; and his only occupation consisted
+in urging the speed of the postilions, as if he were going to save the
+life of some one he held dear. He arrived at Calais; a breeze, which
+seemed obedient to his will, soon wafted him to the English shores;
+and he hastened to the mansion of his fathers, and there, for a
+moment, appeared to lose, in the embraces and caresses of his sister,
+all memory of the past. If she before, by her infantine caresses, had
+gained his affection, now that the woman began to appear, she was
+still more attaching as a companion.
+
+Miss Aubrey had not that winning grace which gains the gaze and
+applause of the drawing-room assemblies. There was none of that light
+brilliancy which only exists in the heated atmosphere of a crowded
+apartment. Her blue eye was never lit up by the levity of the mind
+beneath. There was a melancholy charm about it which did not seem to
+arise from misfortune, but from some feeling within, that appeared to
+indicate a soul conscious of a brighter realm. Her step was not that
+light footing, which strays where'er a butterfly or a colour may
+attract--it was sedate and pensive. When alone, her face was never
+brightened by the smile of joy; but when her brother breathed to her
+his affection, and would in her presence forget those griefs she knew
+destroyed his rest, who would have exchanged her smile for that of the
+voluptuary? It seemed as if those eyes,--that face were then playing
+in the light of their own native sphere. She was yet only eighteen,
+and had not been presented to the world, it having been thought by her
+guardians more fit that her presentation should be delayed until her
+brother's return from the continent, when he might be her protector.
+It was now, therefore, resolved that the next drawing-room, which was
+fast approaching, should be the epoch of her entry into the "busy
+scene." Aubrey would rather have remained in the mansion of his
+fathers, and fed upon the melancholy which overpowered him. He could
+not feel interest about the frivolities of fashionable strangers, when
+his mind had been so torn by the events he had witnessed; but he
+determined to sacrifice his own comfort to the protection of his
+sister. They soon arrived in town, and prepared for the next day,
+which had been announced as a drawing-room.
+
+The crowd was excessive--a drawing-room had not been held for a long
+time, and all who were anxious to bask in the smile of royalty,
+hastened thither. Aubrey was there with his sister. While he was
+standing in a corner by himself, heedless of all around him, engaged
+in the remembrance that the first time he had seen Lord Ruthven was in
+that very place--he felt himself suddenly seized by the arm, and a
+voice he recognized too well, sounded in his ear--"Remember your
+oath." He had hardly courage to turn, fearful of seeing a spectre
+that would blast him, when he perceived, at a little distance, the
+same figure which had attracted his notice on this spot upon his first
+entry into society. He gazed till his limbs almost refusing to bear
+their weight, he was obliged to take the arm of a friend, and forcing
+a passage through the crowd, he threw himself into his carriage, and
+was driven home. He paced the room with hurried steps, and fixed his
+hands upon his head, as if he were afraid his thoughts were bursting
+from his brain. Lord Ruthven again before him--circumstances started
+up in dreadful array--the dagger--his oath.--He roused himself, he
+could not believe it possible--the dead rise again!--He thought his
+imagination had conjured up the image his mind was resting upon. It
+was impossible that it could be real--he determined, therefore, to
+go again into society; for though he attempted to ask concerning Lord
+Ruthven, the name hung upon his lips, and he could not succeed in
+gaining information. He went a few nights after with his sister to the
+assembly of a near relation. Leaving her under the protection of a
+matron, he retired into a recess, and there gave himself up to his own
+devouring thoughts. Perceiving, at last, that many were leaving, he
+roused himself, and entering another room, found his sister surrounded
+by several, apparently in earnest conversation; he attempted to pass
+and get near her, when one, whom he requested to move, turned round,
+and revealed to him those features he most abhorred. He sprang
+forward, seized his sister's arm, and, with hurried step, forced her
+towards the street: at the door he found himself impeded by the crowd
+of servants who were waiting for their lords; and while he was engaged
+in passing them, he again heard that voice whisper close to
+him--"Remember your oath!"--He did not dare to turn, but, hurrying his
+sister, soon reached home.
+
+Aubrey became almost distracted. If before his mind had been absorbed
+by one subject, how much more completely was it engrossed, now that
+the certainty of the monster's living again pressed upon his thoughts.
+His sister's attentions were now unheeded, and it was in vain that she
+intreated him to explain to her what had caused his abrupt conduct. He
+only uttered a few words, and those terrified her. The more he
+thought, the more he was bewildered. His oath startled him;--was he
+then to allow this monster to roam, bearing ruin upon his breath,
+amidst all he held dear, and not avert its progress? His very sister
+might have been touched by him. But even if he were to break his oath,
+and disclose his suspicions, who would believe him? He thought of
+employing his own hand to free the world from such a wretch; but
+death, he remembered, had been already mocked. For days he remained in
+this state; shut up in his room, he saw no one, and ate only when his
+sister came, who, with eyes streaming with tears, besought him, for
+her sake, to support nature. At last, no longer capable of bearing
+stillness and solitude, he left his house, roamed from street to
+street, anxious to fly that image which haunted him. His dress became
+neglected, and he wandered, as often exposed to the noon-day sun as to
+the midnight damps. He was no longer to be recognized; at first he
+returned with the evening to the house; but at last he laid him down
+to rest wherever fatigue overtook him. His sister, anxious for his
+safety, employed people to follow him; but they were soon distanced by
+him who fled from a pursuer swifter than any--from thought. His
+conduct, however, suddenly changed. Struck with the idea that he left
+by his absence the whole of his friends, with a fiend amongst them, of
+whose presence they were unconscious, he determined to enter again
+into society, and watch him closely, anxious to forewarn, in spite of
+his oath, all whom Lord Ruthven approached with intimacy. But when he
+entered into a room, his haggard and suspicious looks were so
+striking, his inward shudderings so visible, that his sister was at
+last obliged to beg of him to abstain from seeking, for her sake, a
+society which affected him so strongly. When, however, remonstrance
+proved unavailing, the guardians thought proper to interpose, and,
+fearing that his mind was becoming alienated, they thought it high
+time to resume again that trust which had been before imposed upon
+them by Aubrey's parents.
+
+Desirous of saving him from the injuries and sufferings he had daily
+encountered in his wanderings, and of preventing him from exposing to
+the general eye those marks of what they considered folly, they
+engaged a physician to reside in the house, and take constant care of
+him. He hardly appeared to notice it, so completely was his mind
+absorbed by one terrible subject. His incoherence became at last so
+great, that he was confined to his chamber. There he would often lie
+for days, incapable of being roused. He had become emaciated, his eyes
+had attained a glassy lustre;--the only sign of affection and
+recollection remaining displayed itself upon the entry of his sister;
+then he would sometimes start, and, seizing her hands, with looks that
+severely afflicted her, he would desire her not to touch him. "Oh, do
+not touch him--if your love for me is aught, do not go near him!"
+When, however, she inquired to whom he referred, his only answer was,
+"True! true!" and again he sank into a state, whence not even she could
+rouse him. This lasted many months: gradually, however, as the year
+was passing, his incoherences became less frequent, and his mind threw
+off a portion of its gloom, whilst his guardians observed, that
+several times in the day he would count upon his fingers a definite
+number, and then smile.
+
+The time had nearly elapsed, when, upon the last day of the year, one
+of his guardians entering his room, began to converse with his
+physician upon the melancholy circumstance of Aubrey's being in so
+awful a situation, when his sister was going next day to be married.
+Instantly Aubrey's attention was attracted; he asked anxiously to
+whom. Glad of this mark of returning intellect, of which they feared
+he had been deprived, they mentioned the name of the Earl of Marsden.
+Thinking this was a young Earl whom he had met with in society, Aubrey
+seemed pleased, and astonished them still more by his expressing his
+intention to be present at the nuptials, and desiring to see his
+sister. They answered not, but in a few minutes his sister was with
+him. He was apparently again capable of being affected by the
+influence of her lovely smile; for he pressed her to his breast, and
+kissed her cheek, wet with tears, flowing at the thought of her
+brother's being once more alive to the feelings of affection. He began
+to speak with all his wonted warmth, and to congratulate her upon her
+marriage with a person so distinguished for rank and every
+accomplishment; when he suddenly perceived a locket upon her breast;
+opening it, what was his surprise at beholding the features of the
+monster who had so long influenced his life. He seized the portrait in
+a paroxysm of rage, and trampled it under foot. Upon her asking him
+why he thus destroyed the resemblance of her future husband, he looked
+as if he did not understand her--then seizing her hands, and gazing
+on her with a frantic expression of countenance, he bade her swear
+that she would never wed this monster, for he----  But he could not
+advance--it seemed as if that voice again bade him remember his
+oath--he turned suddenly round, thinking Lord Ruthven was near him
+but saw no one. In the meantime the guardians and physician, who had
+heard the whole, and thought this was but a return of his disorder,
+entered, and forcing him from Miss Aubrey, desired her to leave him.
+He fell upon his knees to them, he implored, he begged of them to
+delay but for one day. They, attributing this to the insanity they
+imagined had taken possession of his mind, endeavoured to pacify him,
+and retired.
+
+Lord Ruthven had called the morning after the drawing-room, and had
+been refused with every one else. When he heard of Aubrey's ill
+health, he readily understood himself to be the cause of it; but when
+he learned that he was deemed insane, his exultation and pleasure
+could hardly be concealed from those among whom he had gained this
+information. He hastened to the house of his former companion, and, by
+constant attendance, and the pretence of great affection for the
+brother and interest in his fate, he gradually won the ear of Miss
+Aubrey. Who could resist his power? His tongue had dangers and toils
+to recount--could speak of himself as of an individual having no
+sympathy with any being on the crowded earth, save with her to whom he
+addressed himself;--could tell how, since he knew her, his existence,
+had begun to seem worthy of preservation, if it were merely that he
+might listen to her soothing accents;--in fine, he knew so well how to
+use the serpent's art, or such was the will of fate, that he gained
+her affections. The title of the elder branch falling at length to
+him, he obtained an important embassy, which served as an excuse for
+hastening the marriage, (in spite of her brother's deranged state,)
+which was to take place the very day before his departure for the
+continent.
+
+Aubrey, when he was left by the physician and his guardians, attempted
+to bribe the servants, but in vain. He asked for pen and paper; it was
+given him; he wrote a letter to his sister, conjuring her, as she
+valued her own happiness, her own honour, and the honour of those now
+in the grave, who once held her in their arms as their hope and the
+hope of their house, to delay but for a few hours that marriage, on
+which he denounced the most heavy curses. The servants promised they
+would deliver it; but giving it to the physician, he thought it better
+not to harass any more the mind of Miss Aubrey by, what he considered,
+the ravings of a maniac. Night passed on without rest to the busy
+inmates of the house; and Aubrey heard, with a horror that may more
+easily be conceived than described, the notes of busy preparation.
+Morning came, and the sound of carriages broke upon his ear. Aubrey
+grew almost frantic. The curiosity of the servants at last overcame
+their vigilance, they gradually stole away, leaving him in the custody
+of an helpless old woman. He seized the opportunity, with one bound
+was out of the room, and in a moment found himself in the apartment
+where all were nearly assembled. Lord Ruthven was the first to
+perceive him: he immediately approached, and, taking his arm by
+force, hurried him from the room, speechless with rage. When on the
+staircase, Lord Ruthven whispered in his ear--"Remember your oath,
+and know, if not my bride to day, your sister is dishonoured. Women
+are frail!" So saying, he pushed him towards his attendants, who,
+roused by the old woman, had come in search of him. Aubrey could no
+longer support himself; his rage not finding vent, had broken a
+blood-vessel, and he was conveyed to bed. This was not mentioned to
+his sister, who was not present when he entered, as the physician was
+afraid of agitating her. The marriage was solemnized, and the bride
+and bridegroom left London.
+
+Aubrey's weakness increased; the effusion of blood produced symptoms
+of the near approach of death. He desired his sister's guardians might
+be called, and when the midnight hour had struck, he related
+composedly what the reader has perused--he died immediately after.
+
+The guardians hastened to protect Miss Aubrey; but when they arrived,
+it was too late. Lord Ruthven had disappeared, and Aubrey's sister had
+glutted the thirst of a VAMPYRE!
+
+
+  ________________________________________________________________
+
+                         EXTRACT OF A LETTER,
+
+                        CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT
+
+                                  OF
+
+                        LORD BYRON'S RESIDENCE
+
+                                IN THE
+
+                         ISLAND OF MITYLENE.
+  ________________________________________________________________
+
+                               ACCOUNT
+
+                                  OF
+
+                     LORD BYRON'S RESIDENCE, &c.
+                            ______________
+
+"The world was all before him, where to choose his place of rest, and
+                        Providence his guide."
+
+IN Sailing through the Grecian Archipelago, on board one of his
+Majesty's vessels, in the year 1812, we put into the harbour of
+Mitylene, in the island of that name. The beauty of this place, and
+the certain supply of cattle and vegetables always to be had there,
+induce many British vessels to visit it--both men of war and
+merchantmen; and though it lies rather out of the track for ships
+bound to Smyrna, its bounties amply repay for the deviation of a
+voyage. We landed; as usual, at the bottom of the bay, and whilst the
+men were employed in watering, and the purser bargaining for cattle
+with the natives, the clergyman and myself took a ramble to the cave
+called Homer's School, and other places, where we had been before. On
+the brow of Mount Ida (a small monticule so named) we met with and
+engaged a young Greek as our guide, who told us he had come from Scio
+with an English lord, who left the island four days previous to our
+arrival in his felucca. "He engaged me as a pilot," said the Greek,
+"and would have taken me with him; but I did not choose to quit
+Mitylene, where I am likely to get married. He was an odd, but a very
+good man. The cottage over the hill, facing the river, belongs to him,
+and he has left an old man in charge of it: he gave Dominick, the
+wine-trader, six hundred zechines for it, (about L250 English
+currency,) and has resided there about fourteen months, though not
+constantly; for he sails in his felucca very often to the different
+islands."
+
+This account excited our curiosity very much, and we lost no time in
+hastening to the house where our countryman had resided. We were
+kindly received by an old man, who conducted us over the mansion. It
+consisted of four apartments on the ground-floor--an entrance hall, a
+drawing-room, a sitting parlour, and a bed-room, with a spacious
+closet annexed. They were all simply decorated: plain green-stained
+walls, marble tables on either side, a large myrtle in the centre, and
+a small fountain beneath, which could be made to play through the
+branches by moving a spring fixed in the side of a small bronze Venus
+in a leaning posture; a large couch or sofa completed the furniture.
+In the hall stood half a dozen English cane chairs, and an empty
+book-case: there were no mirrors, nor a single painting. The
+bedchamber had merely a large mattress spread on the floor, with two
+stuffed cotton quilts and a pillow--the common bed throughout Greece.
+In the sitting-room we observed a marble recess, formerly, the old man
+told us, filled with books and papers, which were then in a large
+seaman's chest in the closet: it was open, but we did not think
+ourselves justified in examining the contents. On the tablet of the
+recess lay Voltaire's, Shakspeare's, Boileau's, and Rousseau's works
+complete; Volney's Ruins of Empires; Zimmerman, in the German
+language; Klopstock's Messiah; Kotzebue's novels; Schiller's play of
+the Robbers; Milton's Paradise Lost, an Italian edition, printed at
+Parma in 1810; several small pamphlets from the Greek press at
+Constantinople, much torn, but no English book of any description.
+Most of these books were filled with marginal notes, written with a
+pencil, in Italian and Latin. The Messiah was literally scribbled all
+over, and marked with slips of paper, on which also were remarks.
+
+The old man said: "The lord had been reading these books the evening
+before he sailed, and forgot to place them with the others; but,"
+said he, "there they must lie until his return; for he is so
+particular, that were I to move one thing without orders, he would
+frown upon me for a week together; he is otherways very good. I once
+did him a service; and I have the produce of this farm for the trouble
+of taking care of it, except twenty zechines which I pay to an aged
+Armenian who resides in a small cottage in the wood, and whom the lord
+brought here from Adrianople; I don't know for what reason."
+
+The appearance of the house externally was pleasing. The portico in
+front was fifty paces long and fourteen broad, and the fluted marble
+pillars with black plinths and fret-work cornices, (as it is now
+customary in Grecian architecture,) were considerably higher than the
+roof. The roof, surrounded by a light stone balustrade, was covered by
+a fine Turkey carpet, beneath an awning of strong coarse linen. Most
+of the house-tops are thus furnished, as upon them the Greeks pass
+their evenings in smoking, drinking light wines, such as "lachryma
+christi," eating fruit, and enjoying the evening breeze.
+
+On the left hand as we entered the house, a small streamlet glided
+away, grapes, oranges and limes were clustering together on its
+borders, and under the shade of two large myrtle bushes, a marble seat
+with an ornamental wooden back was placed, on which we were told, the
+lord passed many of his evenings and nights till twelve o'clock,
+reading, writing, and talking to himself. "I suppose," said the old
+man, "praying" for he was very devout, "and always attended our church
+twice a week, besides Sundays."
+
+The view from this seat was what may be termed "a bird's-eye view."
+A line of rich vineyards led the eye to Mount Calcla, covered with
+olive and myrtle trees in bloom, and on the summit of which an ancient
+Greek temple appeared in majestic decay. A small stream issuing from
+the ruins descended in broken cascades, until it was lost in the woods
+near the mountain's base. The sea smooth as glass, and an horizon
+unshadowed by a single cloud, terminates the view in front; and a
+little on the left, through a vista of lofty chesnut and palm-trees,
+several small islands were distinctly observed, studding the light
+blue wave with spots of emerald green. I seldom enjoyed a view more
+than I did this; but our enquiries were fruitless as to the name of
+the person who had resided in this romantic solitude: none knew his
+name but Dominick, his banker, who had gone to Candia. "The Armenian,"
+said our conductor, "could tell, but I am sure he will not,"--"And
+cannot you tell, old friend?" said I--"If I can," said he, "I dare
+not." We had not time to visit the Armenian, but on our return to the
+town we learnt several particulars of the isolated lord. He had
+portioned eight young girls when he was last upon the island, and even
+danced with them at the nuptial feast. He gave a cow to one man,
+horses to others, and cotton and silk to the girls who live by weaving
+these articles. He also bought a new boat for a fisherman who had lost
+his own in a gale, and he often gave Greek Testaments to the poor
+children. In short, he appeared to us, from all we collected, to have
+been a very eccentric and benevolent character. One circumstance we
+learnt, which our old friend at the cottage thought proper not to
+disclose. He had a most beautiful daughter, with whom the lord was
+often seen walking on the sea-shore, and he had bought her a
+piano-forte, and taught her himself the use of it.
+
+Such was the information with which we departed from the peaceful isle
+of Mitylene; our imaginations all on the rack, guessing who this
+rambler in Greece could be. He had money it was evident: he had
+philanthropy of disposition, and all those eccentricities which mark
+peculiar genius. Arrived at Palermo, all our doubts were dispelled.
+Falling in company with Mr. FOSTER, the architect, a pupil of WYATT'S,
+who had been travelling in Egypt and Greece, "The individual," said
+he, "about whom you are so anxious, is Lord Byron; I met him in my
+travels on the island of Tenedos, and I also visited him at Mitylene."
+We had never then heard of his lordship's fame, as we had been some
+years from home; but "Childe Harolde" being put into our hands we
+recognized the recluse of Calcla in every page. Deeply did we regret
+not having been more curious in our researches at the cottage, but we
+consoled ourselves with the idea of returning to Mitylene on some
+future day; but to me that day will never return. I make this
+statement, believing it not quite uninteresting, and in justice to his
+lordship's good name, which has been grossly slandered. He has been
+described as of an unfeeling disposition, averse to associating with
+human nature, or contributing in any way to sooth its sorrows, or add
+to its pleasures. The fact is directly the reverse, as may be plainly
+gathered from these little anecdotes. All the finer feelings of the
+heart, so elegantly depicted in his lordship's poems, seem to have
+their seat in his bosom. Tenderness, sympathy, and charity appear to
+guide all his actions: and his courting the repose of solitude is an
+additional reason for marking him as a being on whose heart Religion
+hath set her seal, and over whose head Benevolence hath thrown her
+mantle. No man can read the preceding pleasing "traits" without
+feeling proud of him as a countryman. With respect to his loves or
+pleasures, I do not assume a right to give an opinion. Reports are
+ever to be received with caution, particularly when directed against
+man's moral integrity; and he who dares justify himself before that
+awful tribunal where all must appear, alone may censure the errors of
+a fellow-mortal. Lord Byron's character is worthy of his genius. To do
+good in secret, and shun the world's applause, is the surest testimony
+of a virtuous heart and self-approving conscience.
+
+
+                               THE END
+                        ____________________
+
+             Gillet, Printer, Crown-court, Fleet-street.
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+<H1 ALIGN="center">
+                                 THE<BR>
+                               VAMPYRE;<BR>
+</H1>
+
+<H2 ALIGN="center">
+                               A Tale.<BR>
+</H2>
+
+<H3 ALIGN="center">
+                       By John William Polidori<BR>
+</H3>
+
+<BR><BR>
+
+<H5 ALIGN="center">
+                               LONDON<BR>
+                 PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES<BR>
+                           PATERNOSTER ROW<BR>
+<BR>
+                                1819<BR>
+</H5>
+
+<H5 ALIGN="center">
+              [Entered at Stationers' Hall, March 27, 1819]<BR>
+           Gillet, Printer, Crown Court, Fleet Street, London.<BR>
+</H5>
+
+<BR><BR><BR>
+
+<H3 ALIGN="center">
+                         EXTRACT OF A LETTER<BR>
+<BR>
+                             FROM GENEVA.
+</H3>
+
+<HR ALIGN="center" WIDTH="20%">
+
+<BR>
+
+<P>
+"I breathe freely in the neighbourhood of this lake; the ground upon
+which I tread has been subdued from the earliest ages; the principal
+objects which immediately strike my eye, bring to my recollection
+scenes, in which man acted the hero and was the chief object of
+interest. Not to look back to earlier times of battles and sieges,
+here is the bust of Rousseau&mdash;here is a house with an inscription
+denoting that the Genevan philosopher first drew breath under its
+roof. A little out of the town is Ferney, the residence of Voltaire;
+where that wonderful, though certainly in many respects contemptible,
+character, received, like the hermits of old, the visits of pilgrims,
+not only from his own nation, but from the farthest boundaries of
+Europe. Here too is Bonnet's abode, and, a few steps beyond, the house
+of that astonishing woman Madame de Stael: perhaps the first of her
+sex, who has really proved its often claimed equality with, the nobler
+man. We have before had women who have written interesting novels and
+poems, in which their tact at observing drawing-room characters has
+availed them; but never since the days of Heloise have those faculties
+which are peculiar to man, been developed as the possible inheritance
+of woman. Though even here, as in the case of Heloise, our sex have
+not been backward in alledging the existence of an Abeilard in the
+person of M. Schlegel as the inspirer of her works. But to proceed:
+upon the same side of the lake, Gibbon, Bonnivard, Bradshaw, and
+others mark, as it were, the stages for our progress; whilst upon the
+other side there is one house, built by Diodati, the friend of Milton,
+which has contained within its walls, for several months, that poet
+whom we have so often read together, and who&mdash;if human passions remain
+the same, and human feelings, like chords, on being swept by nature's
+impulses shall vibrate as before&mdash;will be placed by posterity in the
+first rank of our English Poets. You must have heard, or the Third
+Canto of Childe Harold will have informed you, that Lord Byron resided
+many months in this neighbourhood. I went with some friends a few days
+ago, after having seen Ferney, to view this mansion. I trod the floors
+with the same feelings of awe and respect as we did, together, those
+of Shakespeare's dwelling at Stratford. I sat down in a chair of the
+saloon, and satisfied myself that I was resting on what he had made
+his constant seat. I found a servant there who had lived with him;
+she, however, gave me but little information. She pointed out his
+bed-chamber upon the same level as the saloon and dining-room, and
+informed me that he retired to rest at three, got up at two, and
+employed himself a long time over his toilette; that he never went to
+sleep without a pair of pistols and a dagger by his side, and that he
+never ate animal food. He apparently spent some part of every day upon
+the lake in an English boat. There is a balcony from the saloon which
+looks upon the lake and the mountain Jura; and I imagine, that it must
+have been hence, he contemplated the storm so magnificently described
+in the Third Canto; for you have from here a most extensive view of
+all the points he has therein depicted. I can fancy him like the
+scathed pine, whilst all around was sunk to repose, still waking to
+observe, what gave but a weak image of the storms which had desolated
+his own breast.
+</P>
+
+<P CLASS="poem">
+  The sky is changed!&mdash;and such a change; Oh, night!<BR>
+  And storm and darkness, ye are wond'rous strong,<BR>
+  Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light<BR>
+  Of a dark eye in woman! Far along<BR>
+  From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,<BR>
+  Leaps the lire thunder! Not from one lone cloud,<BR>
+  But every mountain now hath found a tongue,<BR>
+  And Jura answers thro' her misty shroud,<BR>
+  Back to the joyous Alps who call to her aloud!<BR>
+</P>
+
+<P CLASS="poem">
+  And this is in the night:&mdash;Most glorious night!<BR>
+  Thou wer't not sent for slumber! let me be<BR>
+  A sharer in thy far and fierce delight,&mdash;<BR>
+  A portion of the tempest and of me!<BR>
+  How the lit lake shines a phosphoric sea,<BR>
+  And the big rain comet dancing to the earth!<BR>
+  And now again 'tis black,&mdash;and now the glee<BR>
+  Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain mirth,<BR>
+  As if they did rejoice o'er a young; earthquake's birth,<BR>
+</P>
+
+<P><P CLASS="poem">
+  Now where the swift Rhine cleaves his way between<BR>
+  Heights which appear, as lovers who have parted<BR>
+  In haste, whose mining depths so intervene,<BR>
+  That they can meet no more, tho' broken hearted;<BR>
+  Tho' in their souls which thus each other thwarted,<BR>
+  Love was the very root of the fond rage<BR>
+  Which blighted their life's bloom, and then departed&mdash;<BR>
+  Itself expired, but leaving; them an age<BR>
+  Of years all winter&mdash;war within themselves to wage.<BR>
+</P>
+
+<P>
+I went down to the little port, if I may use the expression, wherein
+his vessel used to lay, and conversed with the cottager, who had the
+care of it. You may smile, but I have my pleasure in thus helping my
+personification of the individual I admire, by attaining to the
+knowledge of those circumstances which were daily around him. I have
+made numerous enquiries in the town concerning him, but can learn
+nothing. He only went into society there once, when M. Pictet took him
+to the house of a lady to spend the evening. They say he is a very
+singular man, and seem to think him very uncivil. Amongst other things
+they relate, that having invited M. Pictet and Bonstetten to dinner,
+he went on the lake to Chillon, leaving a gentleman who travelled with
+him to receive them and make his apologies. Another evening, being
+invited to the house of Lady D&mdash;&mdash; H&mdash;&mdash;, he promised to attend,
+but upon approaching the windows of her ladyship's villa, and
+perceiving the room to be full of company, he set down his friend,
+desiring him to plead his excuse, and immediately returned home. This
+will serve as a contradiction to the report which you tell me is
+current in England, of his having been avoided by his countrymen on
+the continent. The case happens to be directly the reverse, as he has
+been generally sought by them, though on most occasions, apparently
+without success. It is said, indeed, that upon paying his first visit
+at Coppet, following the servant who had announced his name, he was
+surprised to meet a lady carried out fainting; but before he had been
+seated many minutes, the same lady, who had been so affected at the
+sound of his name, returned and conversed with him a considerable
+time&mdash;such is female curiosity and affectation! He visited Coppet
+frequently, and of course associated there with several of his
+countrymen, who evinced no reluctance to meet him whom his enemies
+alone would represent as an outcast.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Though I have been so unsuccessful in this town, I have been more
+fortunate in my enquiries elsewhere. There is a society three or four
+miles from Geneva, the centre of which is the Countess of Breuss, a
+Russian lady, well acquainted with the agrémens de la Société, and who
+has collected them round herself at her mansion. It was chiefly here,
+I find, that the gentleman who travelled with Lord Byron, as
+physician, sought for society. He used almost every day to cross the
+lake by himself, in one of their flat-bottomed boats, and return after
+passing the evening with his friends, about eleven or twelve at night,
+often whilst the storms were raging in the circling summits of the
+mountains around. As he became intimate, from long acquaintance, with
+several of the families in this neighbourhood, I have gathered from
+their accounts some excellent traits of his lordship's character,
+which I will relate to you at some future opportunity. I must,
+however, free him from one imputation attached to him&mdash;of having in
+his house two sisters as the partakers of his revels. This is, like
+many other charges which have been brought against his lordship,
+entirely destitute of truth. His only companion was the physician I
+have already mentioned. The report originated from the following
+circumstance: Mr. Percy Bysshe Shelly, a gentleman well known for
+extravagance of doctrine, and for his daring, in their profession,
+even to sign himself with the title of ATHeos in the Album at
+Chamouny, having taken a house below, in which he resided with Miss M.
+W. Godwin and Miss Clermont, (the daughters of the celebrated Mr.
+Godwin) they were frequently visitors at Diodati, and were often seen
+upon the lake with his Lordship, which gave rise to the report, the
+truth of which is here positively denied.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Among other things which the lady, from whom I procured these
+anecdotes, related to me, she mentioned the outline of a ghost story
+by Lord Byron. It appears that one evening Lord B., Mr. P. B. Shelly,
+the two ladies and the gentleman before alluded to, after having
+perused a German work, which was entitled Phantasmagoriana, began
+relating ghost stories; when his lordship having recited the beginning
+of Christabel, then unpublished, the whole took so strong a hold of
+Mr. Shelly's mind, that he suddenly started up and ran out of the
+room. The physician and Lord Byron followed, and discovered him
+leaning against a mantle-piece, with cold drops of perspiration
+trickling down his face. After having given him something to refresh
+him, upon enquiring into the cause of his alarm, they found that his
+wild imagination having pictured to him the bosom of one of the ladies
+with eyes (which was reported of a lady in the neighbourhood where he
+lived) he was obliged to leave the room in order to destroy the
+impression. It was afterwards proposed, in the course of conversation,
+that each of the company present should write a tale depending upon
+some supernatural agency, which was undertaken by Lord B., the
+physician, and Miss M. W. Godwin.[1] My friend, the lady above
+referred to, had in her possession the outline of each of these
+stories; I obtained them as a great favour, and herewith forward them
+to you, as I was assured you would feel as much curiosity as myself,
+to peruse the ebauches of so great a genius, and those immediately
+under his influence."
+</P>
+
+<BR><BR>
+
+<P CLASS="footnote">
+[1] Since published under the title of "Frankenstein; or, The Modern
+Prometheus."
+</P>
+
+<BR><BR><BR>
+
+<H2 ALIGN="center">
+                             THE VAMPYRE.
+</H2>
+
+<HR ALIGN="center" WIDTH="90%">
+
+<H3 ALIGN="center">
+                            INTRODUCTION.
+</H3>
+
+<HR ALIGN="center" WIDTH="20%">
+
+<BR>
+
+<P>
+THE superstition upon which this tale is founded is very general in
+the East. Among the Arabians it appears to be common: it did not,
+however, extend itself to the Greeks until after the establishment of
+Christianity; and it has only assumed its present form since the
+division of the Latin and Greek churches; at which time, the idea
+becoming prevalent, that a Latin body could not corrupt if buried in
+their territory, it gradually increased, and formed the subject of
+many wonderful stories, still extant, of the dead rising from their
+graves, and feeding upon the blood of the young and beautiful. In the
+West it spread, with some slight variation, all over Hungary, Poland,
+Austria, and Lorraine, where the belief existed, that vampyres nightly
+imbibed a certain portion of the blood of their victims, who became
+emaciated, lost their strength, and speedily died of consumptions;
+whilst these human blood-suckers fattened&mdash;and their veins became
+distended to such a state of repletion, as to cause the blood to flow
+from all the passages of their bodies, and even from the very pores of
+their skins.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+In the London Journal, of March, 1732, is a curious, and, of course,
+credible account of a particular case of vampyrism, which is stated to
+have occurred at Madreyga, in Hungary. It appears, that upon an
+examination of the commander-in-chief and magistrates of the place,
+they positively and unanimously affirmed, that, about five years
+before, a certain Heyduke, named Arnold Paul, had been heard to say,
+that, at Cassovia, on the frontiers of the Turkish Servia, he had been
+tormented by a vampyre, but had found a way to rid himself of the
+evil, by eating some of the earth out of the vampyre's grave, and
+rubbing himself with his blood. This precaution, however, did not
+prevent him from becoming a vampyre[2] himself; for, about twenty or
+thirty days after his death and burial, many persons complained of
+having been tormented by him, and a deposition was made, that four
+persons had been deprived of life by his attacks. To prevent further
+mischief, the inhabitants having consulted their Hadagni,[3] took up
+the body, and found it (as is supposed to be usual in cases of
+vampyrism) fresh, and entirely free from corruption, and emitting at
+the mouth, nose, and ears, pure and florid blood. Proof having been
+thus obtained, they resorted to the accustomed remedy. A stake was
+driven entirely through the heart and body of Arnold Paul, at which he
+is reported to have cried out as dreadfully as if he had been alive.
+This done, they cut off his head, burned his body, and threw the ashes
+into his grave. The same measures were adopted with the corses of
+those persons who had previously died from vampyrism, lest they
+should, in their turn, become agents upon others who survived them.
+</P>
+
+<BR><BR>
+
+<P CLASS="footnote">
+[2] The universal belief is, that a person sucked by a vampyre becomes a
+vampyre himself, and sucks in his turn.
+</P>
+
+<P CLASS="footnote">
+[3] Chief bailiff.
+</P>
+
+<BR><BR>
+
+<P>
+This monstrous rodomontade is here related, because it seems better
+adapted to illustrate the subject of the present observations than any
+other instance which could be adduced. In many parts of Greece it is
+considered as a sort of punishment after death, for some heinous crime
+committed whilst in existence, that the deceased is not only doomed to
+vampyrise, but compelled to confine his infernal visitations solely to
+those beings he loved most while upon earth&mdash;those to whom he was bound
+by ties of kindred and affection.&mdash;A supposition alluded to in the
+"Giaour."
+</P>
+
+<P CLASS="poem">
+  But first on earth, as Vampyre sent,<BR>
+  Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent;<BR>
+  Then ghastly haunt the native place,<BR>
+  And suck the blood of all thy race;<BR>
+  There from thy daughter, sister, wife,<BR>
+  At midnight drain the stream of life;<BR>
+  Yet loathe the banquet which perforce<BR>
+  Must feed thy livid living corse,<BR>
+  Thy victims, ere they yet expire,<BR>
+  Shall know the demon for their sire;<BR>
+  As cursing thee, thou cursing them,<BR>
+  Thy flowers are withered on the stem.<BR>
+  But one that for thy crime must fall,<BR>
+  The youngest, best beloved of all,<BR>
+  Shall bless thee with a father's name&mdash;<BR>
+  That word shall wrap thy heart in flame!<BR>
+  Yet thou must end thy task and mark<BR>
+  Her cheek's last tinge&mdash;her eye's last spark,<BR>
+  And the last glassy glance must view<BR>
+  Which freezes o'er its lifeless blue;<BR>
+  Then with unhallowed hand shall tear<BR>
+  The tresses of her yellow hair,<BR>
+  Of which, in life a lock when shorn<BR>
+  Affection's fondest pledge was worn&mdash;<BR>
+  But now is borne away by thee<BR>
+  Memorial of thine agony!<BR>
+  Yet with thine own best blood shall drip;<BR>
+  Thy gnashing tooth, and haggard lip;<BR>
+  Then stalking to thy sullen grave,<BR>
+  Go&mdash;and with Gouls and Afrits rave,<BR>
+  Till these in horror shrink away<BR>
+  From spectre more accursed than they.<BR>
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Mr. Southey has also introduced in his wild but beautiful poem of
+"Thalaba," the vampyre corse of the Arabian maid Oneiza, who is
+represented as having returned from the grave for the purpose of
+tormenting him she best loved whilst in existence. But this cannot be
+supposed to have resulted from the sinfulness of her life, she being
+pourtrayed throughout the whole of the tale as a complete type of
+purity and innocence. The veracious Tournefort gives a long account in
+his travels of several astonishing cases of vampyrism, to which he
+pretends to have been an eyewitness; and Calmet, in his great work
+upon this subject, besides a variety of anecdotes, and traditionary
+narratives illustrative of its effects, has put forth some learned
+dissertations, tending to prove it to be a classical, as well as
+barbarian error.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Many curious and interesting notices on this singularly horrible
+superstition might be added; though the present may suffice for the
+limits of a note, necessarily devoted to explanation, and which may
+now be concluded by merely remarking, that though the term Vampyre is
+the one in most general acceptation, there are several others
+synonymous with it, made use of in various parts of the world: as
+Vroucolocha, Vardoulacha, Goul, Broucoloka, &amp;c.
+</P>
+
+<BR><BR><BR>
+
+<HR ALIGN="center" WIDTH="90%">
+
+
+<H2 ALIGN="center">
+                             THE VAMPYRE.
+</H2>
+
+<HR ALIGN="center" WIDTH="20%">
+
+<BR>
+
+<P>
+IT happened that in the midst of the dissipations attendant upon a
+London winter, there appeared at the various parties of the leaders of
+the ton a nobleman, more remarkable for his singularities, than his
+rank. He gazed upon the mirth around him, as if he could not
+participate therein. Apparently, the light laughter of the fair only
+attracted his attention, that he might by a look quell it, and throw
+fear into those breasts where thoughtlessness reigned. Those who felt
+this sensation of awe, could not explain whence it arose: some
+attributed it to the dead grey eye, which, fixing upon the object's
+face, did not seem to penetrate, and at one glance to pierce through
+to the inward workings of the heart; but fell upon the cheek with a
+leaden ray that weighed upon the skin it could not pass. His
+peculiarities caused him to be invited to every house; all wished to
+see him, and those who had been accustomed to violent excitement, and
+now felt the weight of ennui, were pleased at having something in
+their presence capable of engaging their attention. In spite of the
+deadly hue of his face, which never gained a warmer tint, either from
+the blush of modesty, or from the strong emotion of passion, though
+its form and outline were beautiful, many of the female hunters after
+notoriety attempted to win his attentions, and gain, at least, some
+marks of what they might term affection: Lady Mercer, who had been the
+mockery of every monster shewn in drawing-rooms since her marriage,
+threw herself in his way, and did all but put on the dress of a
+mountebank, to attract his notice:&mdash;though in vain:&mdash;when she
+stood before him, though his eyes were apparently fixed upon her's,
+still it seemed as if they were unperceived;&mdash;even her unappalled
+impudence was baffled, and she left the field. But though the common
+adultress could not influence even the guidance of his eyes, it was
+not that the female sex was indifferent to him: yet such was the
+apparent caution with which he spoke to the virtuous wife and innocent
+daughter, that few knew he ever addressed himself to females. He had,
+however, the reputation of a winning tongue; and whether it was that
+it even overcame the dread of his singular character, or that they
+were moved by his apparent hatred of vice, he was as often among those
+females who form the boast of their sex from their domestic virtues,
+as among those who sully it by their vices.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+About the same time, there came to London a young gentleman of the
+name of Aubrey: he was an orphan left with an only sister in the
+possession of great wealth, by parents who died while he was yet in
+childhood. Left also to himself by guardians, who thought it their
+duty merely to take care of his fortune, while they relinquished the
+more important charge of his mind to the care of mercenary subalterns,
+he cultivated more his imagination than his judgment. He had, hence,
+that high romantic feeling of honour and candour, which daily ruins so
+many milliners' apprentices. He believed all to sympathise with
+virtue, and thought that vice was thrown in by Providence merely for
+the picturesque effect of the scene, as we see in romances: he thought
+that the misery of a cottage merely consisted in the vesting of
+clothes, which were as warm, but which were better adapted to the
+painter's eye by their irregular folds and various coloured patches.
+He thought, in fine, that the dreams of poets were the realities of
+life. He was handsome, frank, and rich: for these reasons, upon his
+entering into the gay circles, many mothers surrounded him, striving
+which should describe with least truth their languishing or romping
+favourites: the daughters at the same time, by their brightening
+countenances when he approached, and by their sparkling eyes, when he
+opened his lips, soon led him into false notions of his talents and
+his merit. Attached as he was to the romance of his solitary hours,
+he was startled at finding, that, except in the tallow and wax candles
+that flickered, not from the presence of a ghost, but from want of
+snuffing, there was no foundation in real life for any of that
+congeries of pleasing pictures and descriptions contained in those
+volumes, from which he had formed his study. Finding, however, some
+compensation in his gratified vanity, he was about to relinquish his
+dreams, when the extraordinary being we have above described, crossed
+him in his career.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+He watched him; and the very impossibility of forming an idea of the
+character of a man entirely absorbed in himself, who gave few other
+signs of his observation of external objects, than the tacit assent to
+their existence, implied by the avoidance of their contact: allowing
+his imagination to picture every thing that flattered its propensity
+to extravagant ideas, he soon formed this object into the hero of a
+romance, and determined to observe the offspring of his fancy, rather
+than the person before him. He became acquainted with him, paid him
+attentions, and so far advanced upon his notice, that his presence was
+always recognised. He gradually learnt that Lord Ruthven's affairs
+were embarrassed, and soon found, from the notes of preparation in
+&mdash;&mdash; Street, that he was about to travel. Desirous of gaining some
+information respecting this singular character, who, till now, had
+only whetted his curiosity, he hinted to his guardians, that it was
+time for him to perform the tour, which for many generations has been
+thought necessary to enable the young to take some rapid steps in the
+career of vice towards putting themselves upon an equality with the
+aged, and not allowing them to appear as if fallen from the skies,
+whenever scandalous intrigues are mentioned as the subjects of
+pleasantry or of praise, according to the degree of skill shewn in
+carrying them on. They consented: and Aubrey immediately mentioning
+his intentions to Lord Ruthven, was surprised to receive from him a
+proposal to join him. Flattered by such a mark of esteem from him,
+who, apparently, had nothing in common with other men, he gladly
+accepted it, and in a few days they had passed the circling waters.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Hitherto, Aubrey had had no opportunity of studying Lord Ruthven's
+character, and now he found, that, though many more of his actions
+were exposed to his view, the results offered different conclusions
+from the apparent motives to his conduct. His companion was profuse
+in his liberality;&mdash;the idle, the vagabond, and the beggar, received
+from his hand more than enough to relieve their immediate wants. But
+Aubrey could not avoid remarking, that it was not upon the virtuous,
+reduced to indigence by the misfortunes attendant even upon virtue,
+that he bestowed his alms;&mdash;these were sent from the door with
+hardly suppressed sneers; but when the profligate came to ask
+something, not to relieve his wants, but to allow him to wallow in his
+lust, or to sink him still deeper in his iniquity, he was sent away
+with rich charity. This was, however, attributed by him to the greater
+importunity of the vicious, which generally prevails over the retiring
+bashfulness of the virtuous indigent. There was one circumstance about
+the charity of his Lordship, which was still more impressed upon his
+mind: all those upon whom it was bestowed, inevitably found that there
+was a curse upon it, for they were all either led to the scaffold, or
+sunk to the lowest and the most abject misery. At Brussels and other
+towns through which they passed, Aubrey was surprized at the apparent
+eagerness with which his companion sought for the centres of all
+fashionable vice; there he entered into all the spirit of the faro
+table: he betted, and always gambled with success, except where the
+known sharper was his antagonist, and then he lost even more than he
+gained; but it was always with the same unchanging face, with which he
+generally watched the society around: it was not, however, so when he
+encountered the rash youthful novice, or the luckless father of a
+numerous family; then his very wish seemed fortune's law&mdash;this
+apparent abstractedness of mind was laid aside, and his eyes sparkled
+with more fire than that of the cat whilst dallying with the
+half-dead mouse. In every town, he left the formerly affluent youth,
+torn from the circle he adorned, cursing, in the solitude of a
+dungeon, the fate that had drawn him within the reach of this fiend;
+whilst many a father sat frantic, amidst the speaking looks of mute
+hungry children, without a single farthing of his late immense wealth,
+wherewith to buy even sufficient to satisfy their present craving. Yet
+he took no money from the gambling table; but immediately lost, to the
+ruiner of many, the last gilder he had just snatched from the
+convulsive grasp of the innocent: this might but be the result of a
+certain degree of knowledge, which was not, however, capable of
+combating the cunning of the more experienced. Aubrey often wished to
+represent this to his friend, and beg him to resign that charity and
+pleasure which proved the ruin of all, and did not tend to his own
+profit;&mdash;but he delayed it&mdash;for each day he hoped his friend would
+give him some opportunity of speaking frankly and openly to him;
+however, this never occurred. Lord Ruthven in his carriage, and amidst
+the various wild and rich scenes of nature, was always the same: his
+eye spoke less than his lip; and though Aubrey was near the object of
+his curiosity, he obtained no greater gratification from it than the
+constant excitement of vainly wishing to break that mystery, which to
+his exalted imagination began to assume the appearance of something
+supernatural.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+They soon arrived at Rome, and Aubrey for a time lost sight of his
+companion; he left him in daily attendance upon the morning circle of
+an Italian countess, whilst he went in search of the memorials of
+another almost deserted city. Whilst he was thus engaged, letters
+arrived from England, which he opened with eager impatience; the first
+was from his sister, breathing nothing but affection; the others were
+from his guardians, the latter astonished him; if it had before
+entered into his imagination that there was an evil power resident in
+his companion, these seemed to give him sufficient reason for the
+belief. His guardians insisted upon his immediately leaving his
+friend, and urged, that his character was dreadfully vicious, for that
+the possession of irresistible powers of seduction, rendered his
+licentious habits more dangerous to society. It had been discovered,
+that his contempt for the adultress had not originated in hatred of
+her character; but that he had required, to enhance his gratification,
+that his victim, the partner of his guilt, should be hurled from the
+pinnacle of unsullied virtue, down to the lowest abyss of infamy and
+degradation: in fine, that all those females whom he had sought,
+apparently on account of their virtue, had, since his departure,
+thrown even the mask aside, and had not scrupled to expose the whole
+deformity of their vices to the public gaze.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Aubrey determined upon leaving one, whose character had not yet shown
+a single bright point on which to rest the eye. He resolved to invent
+some plausible pretext for abandoning him altogether, purposing, in
+the mean while, to watch him more closely, and to let no slight
+circumstances pass by unnoticed. He entered into the same circle, and
+soon perceived, that his Lordship was endeavouring to work upon the
+inexperience of the daughter of the lady whose house he chiefly
+frequented. In Italy, it is seldom that an unmarried female is met
+with in society; he was therefore obliged to carry on his plans in
+secret; but Aubrey's eye followed him in all his windings, and soon
+discovered that an assignation had been appointed, which would most
+likely end in the ruin of an innocent, though thoughtless girl. Losing
+no time, he entered the apartment of Lord Ruthven, and abruptly asked
+him his intentions with respect to the lady, informing him at the same
+time that he was aware of his being about to meet her that very night.
+Lord Ruthven answered, that his intentions were such as he supposed
+all would have upon such an occasion; and upon being pressed whether
+he intended to marry her, merely laughed. Aubrey retired; and,
+immediately writing a note, to say, that from that moment he must
+decline accompanying his Lordship in the remainder of their proposed
+tour, he ordered his servant to seek other apartments, and calling
+upon the mother of the lady, informed her of all he knew, not only
+with regard to her daughter, but also concerning the character of his
+Lordship. The assignation was prevented. Lord Ruthven next day merely
+sent his servant to notify his complete assent to a separation; but
+did not hint any suspicion of his plans having been foiled by Aubrey's
+interposition.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Having left Rome, Aubrey directed his steps towards Greece, and
+crossing the Peninsula, soon found himself at Athens. He then fixed
+his residence in the house of a Greek; and soon occupied himself in
+tracing the faded records of ancient glory upon monuments that
+apparently, ashamed of chronicling the deeds of freemen only before
+slaves, had hidden themselves beneath the sheltering soil or many
+coloured lichen. Under the same roof as himself, existed a being, so
+beautiful and delicate, that she might have formed the model for a
+painter wishing to pourtray on canvass the promised hope of the
+faithful in Mahomet's paradise, save that her eyes spoke too much mind
+for any one to think she could belong to those who had no souls. As
+she danced upon the plain, or tripped along the mountain's side, one
+would have thought the gazelle a poor type of her beauties; for who
+would have exchanged her eye, apparently the eye of animated nature,
+for that sleepy luxurious look of the animal suited but to the taste
+of an epicure. The light step of Ianthe often accompanied Aubrey in
+his search after antiquities, and often would the unconscious girl,
+engaged in the pursuit of a Kashmere butterfly, show the whole beauty
+of her form, floating as it were upon the wind, to the eager gaze of
+him, who forgot the letters he had just decyphered upon an almost
+effaced tablet, in the contemplation of her sylph-like figure. Often
+would her tresses falling, as she flitted around, exhibit in the sun's
+ray such delicately brilliant and swiftly fading hues, it might well
+excuse the forgetfulness of the antiquary, who let escape from his
+mind the very object he had before thought of vital importance to the
+proper interpretation of a passage in Pausanias. But why attempt to
+describe charms which all feel, but none can appreciate?&mdash;It was
+innocence, youth, and beauty, unaffected by crowded drawing-rooms and
+stifling balls. Whilst he drew those remains of which he wished to
+preserve a memorial for his future hours, she would stand by, and
+watch the magic effects of his pencil, in tracing the scenes of her
+native place; she would then describe to him the circling dance upon
+the open plain, would paint, to him in all the glowing colours of
+youthful memory, the marriage pomp she remembered viewing in her
+infancy; and then, turning to subjects that had evidently made a
+greater impression upon her mind, would tell him all the supernatural
+tales of her nurse. Her earnestness and apparent belief of what she
+narrated, excited the interest even of Aubrey; and often as she told
+him the tale of the living vampyre, who had passed years amidst his
+friends, and dearest ties, forced every year, by feeding upon the life
+of a lovely female to prolong his existence for the ensuing months,
+his blood would run cold, whilst he attempted to laugh her out of such
+idle and horrible fantasies; but Ianthe cited to him the names of old
+men, who had at last detected one living among themselves, after
+several of their near relatives and children had been found marked
+with the stamp of the fiend's appetite; and when she found him so
+incredulous, she begged of him to believe her, for it had been,
+remarked, that those who had dared to question their existence, always
+had some proof given, which obliged them, with grief and
+heartbreaking, to confess it was true. She detailed to him the
+traditional appearance of these monsters, and his horror was
+increased, by hearing a pretty accurate description of Lord Ruthven;
+he, however, still persisted in persuading her, that there could be no
+truth in her fears, though at the same time he wondered at the many
+coincidences which had all tended to excite a belief in the
+supernatural power of Lord Ruthven.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Aubrey began to attach himself more and more to Ianthe; her innocence,
+so contrasted with all the affected virtues of the women among whom he
+had sought for his vision of romance, won his heart; and while he
+ridiculed the idea of a young man of English habits, marrying an
+uneducated Greek girl, still he found himself more and more attached
+to the almost fairy form before him. He would tear himself at times
+from her, and, forming a plan for some antiquarian research, he would
+depart, determined not to return until his object was attained; but he
+always found it impossible to fix his attention upon the ruins around
+him, whilst in his mind he retained an image that seemed alone the
+rightful possessor of his thoughts. Ianthe was unconscious of his
+love, and was ever the same frank infantile being he had first known.
+She always seemed to part from him with reluctance; but it was because
+she had no longer any one with whom she could visit her favourite
+haunts, whilst her guardian was occupied in sketching or uncovering
+some fragment which had yet escaped the destructive hand of time. She
+had appealed to her parents on the subject of Vampyres, and they both,
+with several present, affirmed their existence, pale with horror at
+the very name. Soon after, Aubrey determined to proceed upon one of
+his excursions, which was to detain him for a few hours; when they
+heard the name of the place, they all at once begged of him not to
+return at night, as he must necessarily pass through a wood, where no
+Greek would ever remain, after the day had closed, upon any
+consideration. They described it as the resort of the vampyres in
+their nocturnal orgies, and denounced the most heavy evils as
+impending upon him who dared to cross their path. Aubrey made light of
+their representations, and tried to laugh them out of the idea; but
+when he saw them shudder at his daring thus to mock a superior,
+infernal power, the very name of which apparently made their blood
+freeze, he was silent.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Next morning Aubrey set off upon his excursion unattended; he was
+surprised to observe the melancholy face of his host, and was
+concerned to find that his words, mocking the belief of those horrible
+fiends, had inspired them with such terror. When he was about to
+depart, Ianthe came to the side of his horse, and earnestly begged of
+him to return, ere night allowed the power of these beings to be put
+in action;&mdash;he promised. He was, however, so occupied in his
+research, that he did not perceive that day-light would soon end, and
+that in the horizon there was one of those specks which, in the warmer
+climates, so rapidly gather into a tremendous mass, and pour all their
+rage upon the devoted country.&mdash;He at last, however, mounted his
+horse, determined to make up by speed for his delay: but it was too
+late. Twilight, in these southern climates, is almost unknown;
+immediately the sun sets, night begins: and ere he had advanced far,
+the power of the storm was above&mdash;its echoing thunders had scarcely
+an interval of rest&mdash;its thick heavy rain forced its way through the
+canopying foliage, whilst the blue forked lightning seemed to fall and
+radiate at his very feet. Suddenly his horse took fright, and he was
+carried with dreadful rapidity through the entangled forest. The
+animal at last, through fatigue, stopped, and he found, by the glare
+of lightning, that he was in the neighbourhood of a hovel that hardly
+lifted itself up from the masses of dead leaves and brushwood which
+surrounded it. Dismounting, he approached, hoping to find some one to
+guide him to the town, or at least trusting to obtain shelter from the
+pelting of the storm. As he approached, the thunders, for a moment
+silent, allowed him to hear the dreadful shrieks of a woman mingling
+with the stifled, exultant mockery of a laugh, continued in one almost
+unbroken sound;&mdash;he was startled: but, roused by the thunder which
+again rolled over his head, he, with a sudden effort, forced open the
+door of the hut. He found himself in utter darkness: the sound,
+however, guided him. He was apparently unperceived; for, though he
+called, still the sounds continued, and no notice was taken of him. He
+found himself in contact with some one, whom he immediately seized;
+when a voice cried, "Again baffled!" to which a loud laugh succeeded;
+and he felt himself grappled by one whose strength seemed superhuman:
+determined to sell his life as dearly as he could, he struggled; but
+it was in vain: he was lifted from his feet and hurled with enormous
+force against the ground:&mdash;his enemy threw himself upon him, and
+kneeling upon his breast, had placed his hands upon his throat&mdash;when
+the glare of many torches penetrating through the hole that gave
+light in the day, disturbed him;&mdash;he instantly rose, and, leaving his
+prey, rushed through the door, and in a moment the crashing of the
+branches, as he broke through the wood, was no longer heard. The storm
+was now still; and Aubrey, incapable of moving, was soon heard by
+those without. They entered; the light of their torches fell upon the
+mud walls, and the thatch loaded on every individual straw with heavy
+flakes of soot. At the desire of Aubrey they searched for her who had
+attracted him by her cries; he was again left in darkness; but what
+was his horror, when the light of the torches once more burst upon
+him, to perceive the airy form of his fair conductress brought in a
+lifeless corse. He shut his eyes, hoping that it was but a vision
+arising from his disturbed imagination; but he again saw the same
+form, when he unclosed them, stretched by his side. There was no
+colour upon her cheek, not even upon her lip; yet there was a
+stillness about her face that seemed almost as attaching as the life
+that once dwelt there:&mdash;upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon
+her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein:&mdash;to this
+the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "A
+Vampyre! a Vampyre!" A litter was quickly formed, and Aubrey was laid
+by the side of her who had lately been to him the object of so many
+bright and fairy visions, now fallen with the flower of life that had
+died within her. He knew not what his thoughts were&mdash;his mind was
+benumbed and seemed to shun reflection, and take refuge in
+vacancy&mdash;he held almost unconsciously in his hand a naked dagger of a
+particular construction, which had been found in the hut. They were
+soon met by different parties who had been engaged in the search of
+her whom a mother had missed. Their lamentable cries, as they
+approached the city, forewarned the parents of some dreadful
+catastrophe. &mdash;To describe their grief would be impossible; but when
+they ascertained the cause of their child's death, they looked at
+Aubrey, and pointed to the corse. They were inconsolable; both died
+broken-hearted.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Aubrey being put to bed was seized with a most violent fever, and was
+often delirious; in these intervals he would call upon Lord Ruthven
+and upon Ianthe&mdash;by some unaccountable combination he seemed to beg
+of his former companion to spare the being he loved. At other times he
+would imprecate maledictions upon his head, and curse him as her
+destroyer. Lord Ruthven, chanced at this time to arrive at Athens,
+and, from whatever motive, upon hearing of the state of Aubrey,
+immediately placed himself in the same house, and became his constant
+attendant. When the latter recovered from his delirium, he was
+horrified and startled at the sight of him whose image he had now
+combined with that of a Vampyre; but Lord Ruthven, by his kind words,
+implying almost repentance for the fault that had caused their
+separation, and still more by the attention, anxiety, and care which
+he showed, soon reconciled him to his presence. His lordship seemed
+quite changed; he no longer appeared that apathetic being who had so
+astonished Aubrey; but as soon as his convalescence began to be rapid,
+he again gradually retired into the same state of mind, and Aubrey
+perceived no difference from the former man, except that at times he
+was surprised to meet his gaze fixed intently upon him, with a smile
+of malicious exultation playing upon his lips: he knew not why, but
+this smile haunted him. During the last stage of the invalid's
+recovery, Lord Ruthven was apparently engaged in watching the tideless
+waves raised by the cooling breeze, or in marking the progress of
+those orbs, circling, like our world, the moveless sun;&mdash;indeed, he
+appeared to wish to avoid the eyes of all.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Aubrey's mind, by this shock, was much weakened, and that elasticity
+of spirit which had once so distinguished him now seemed to have fled
+for ever. He was now as much a lover of solitude and silence as Lord
+Ruthven; but much as he wished for solitude, his mind could not find
+it in the neighbourhood of Athens; if he sought it amidst the ruins he
+had formerly frequented, Ianthe's form stood by his side&mdash;if he
+sought it in the woods, her light step would appear wandering amidst
+the underwood, in quest of the modest violet; then suddenly turning
+round, would show, to his wild imagination, her pale face and wounded
+throat, with a meek smile upon her lips. He determined to fly scenes,
+every feature of which created such bitter associations in his mind.
+He proposed to Lord Ruthven, to whom he held himself bound by the
+tender care he had taken of him during his illness, that they should
+visit those parts of Greece neither had yet seen. They travelled in
+every direction, and sought every spot to which a recollection could
+be attached: but though they thus hastened from place to place, yet
+they seemed not to heed what they gazed upon. They heard much of
+robbers, but they gradually began to slight these reports, which they
+imagined were only the invention of individuals, whose interest it was
+to excite the generosity of those whom they defended from pretended
+dangers. In consequence of thus neglecting the advice of the
+inhabitants, on one occasion they travelled with only a few guards,
+more to serve as guides than as a defence. Upon entering, however, a
+narrow defile, at the bottom of which was the bed of a torrent, with
+large masses of rock brought down from the neighbouring precipices,
+they had reason to repent their negligence; for scarcely were the
+whole of the party engaged in the narrow pass, when they were startled
+by the whistling of bullets close to their heads, and by the echoed
+report of several guns. In an instant their guards had left them, and,
+placing themselves behind rocks, had begun to fire in the direction
+whence the report came. Lord Ruthven and Aubrey, imitating their
+example, retired for a moment behind the sheltering turn of the
+defile: but ashamed of being thus detained by a foe, who with
+insulting shouts bade them advance, and being exposed to unresisting
+slaughter, if any of the robbers should climb above and take them in
+the rear, they determined at once to rush forward in search of the
+enemy. Hardly had they lost the shelter of the rock, when Lord Ruthven
+received a shot in the shoulder, which brought him to the ground.
+Aubrey hastened to his assistance; and, no longer heeding the contest
+or his own peril, was soon surprised by seeing the robbers' faces
+around him&mdash;his guards having, upon Lord Ruthven's being wounded,
+immediately thrown up their arms and surrendered.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+By promises of great reward, Aubrey soon induced them to convey his
+wounded friend to a neighbouring cabin; and having agreed upon a
+ransom, he was no more disturbed by their presence&mdash;they being
+content merely to guard the entrance till their comrade should return
+with the promised sum, for which he had an order. Lord Ruthven's
+strength rapidly decreased; in two days mortification ensued, and
+death seemed advancing with hasty steps. His conduct and appearance
+had not changed; he seemed as unconscious of pain as he had been of
+the objects about him: but towards the close of the last evening, his
+mind became apparently uneasy, and his eye often fixed upon Aubrey,
+who was induced to offer his assistance with more than usual
+earnestness&mdash;"Assist me! you may save me&mdash;you may do more than
+that&mdash;I mean not my life, I heed the death of my existence as little
+as that of the passing day; but you may save my honour, your friend's
+honour."&mdash;"How? tell me how? I would do any thing," replied Aubrey.&mdash;"I
+need but little&mdash;my life ebbs apace&mdash;I cannot explain the
+whole&mdash;but if you would conceal all you know of me, my honour were
+free from stain in the world's mouth&mdash;and if my death were unknown
+for some time in England&mdash;I&mdash;I&mdash;but life."&mdash;"It shall not be
+known."&mdash;"Swear!" cried the dying man, raising himself with exultant
+violence, "Swear by all your soul reveres, by all your nature fears,
+swear that, for a year and a day you will not impart your knowledge of
+my crimes or death to any living being in any way, whatever may
+happen, or whatever you may see. "&mdash;His eyes seemed bursting from
+their sockets: "I swear!" said Aubrey; he sunk laughing upon his
+pillow, and breathed no more.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Aubrey retired to rest, but did not sleep; the many circumstances
+attending his acquaintance with this man rose upon his mind, and he
+knew not why; when he remembered his oath a cold shivering came over
+him, as if from the presentiment of something horrible awaiting him.
+Rising early in the morning, he was about to enter the hovel in which
+he had left the corpse, when a robber met him, and informed him that
+it was no longer there, having been conveyed by himself and comrades,
+upon his retiring, to the pinnacle of a neighbouring mount, according
+to a promise they had given his lordship, that it should be exposed to
+the first cold ray of the moon that rose after his death. Aubrey
+astonished, and taking several of the men, determined to go and bury
+it upon the spot where it lay. But, when he had mounted to the summit
+he found no trace of either the corpse or the clothes, though the
+robbers swore they pointed out the identical rock on which they had
+laid the body. For a time his mind was bewildered in conjectures, but
+he at last returned, convinced that they had buried the corpse for the
+sake of the clothes.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Weary of a country in which he had met with such terrible misfortunes,
+and in which all apparently conspired to heighten that superstitious
+melancholy that had seized upon his mind, he resolved to leave it, and
+soon arrived at Smyrna. While waiting for a vessel to convey him to
+Otranto, or to Naples, he occupied himself in arranging those effects
+he had with him belonging to Lord Ruthven. Amongst other things there
+was a case containing several weapons of offence, more or less adapted
+to ensure the death of the victim. There were several daggers and
+ataghans. Whilst turning them over, and examining their curious forms,
+what was his surprise at finding a sheath apparently ornamented in the
+same style as the dagger discovered in the fatal hut&mdash;he
+shuddered&mdash;hastening to gain further proof, he found the weapon, and
+his horror may be imagined when he discovered that it fitted, though
+peculiarly shaped, the sheath he held in his hand. His eyes seemed to
+need no further certainty&mdash;they seemed gazing to be bound to the
+dagger; yet still he wished to disbelieve; but the particular form,
+the same varying tints upon the haft and sheath were alike in
+splendour on both, and left no room for doubt; there were also drops
+of blood on each.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+He left Smyrna, and on his way home, at Rome, his first inquiries were
+concerning the lady he had attempted to snatch from Lord Ruthven's
+seductive arts. Her parents were in distress, their fortune ruined,
+and she had not been heard of since the departure of his lordship.
+Aubrey's mind became almost broken under so many repeated horrors; he
+was afraid that this lady had fallen a victim to the destroyer of
+Ianthe. He became morose and silent; and his only occupation consisted
+in urging the speed of the postilions, as if he were going to save the
+life of some one he held dear. He arrived at Calais; a breeze, which
+seemed obedient to his will, soon wafted him to the English shores;
+and he hastened to the mansion of his fathers, and there, for a
+moment, appeared to lose, in the embraces and caresses of his sister,
+all memory of the past. If she before, by her infantine caresses, had
+gained his affection, now that the woman began to appear, she was
+still more attaching as a companion.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Miss Aubrey had not that winning grace which gains the gaze and
+applause of the drawing-room assemblies. There was none of that light
+brilliancy which only exists in the heated atmosphere of a crowded
+apartment. Her blue eye was never lit up by the levity of the mind
+beneath. There was a melancholy charm about it which did not seem to
+arise from misfortune, but from some feeling within, that appeared to
+indicate a soul conscious of a brighter realm. Her step was not that
+light footing, which strays where'er a butterfly or a colour may
+attract&mdash;it was sedate and pensive. When alone, her face was never
+brightened by the smile of joy; but when her brother breathed to her
+his affection, and would in her presence forget those griefs she knew
+destroyed his rest, who would have exchanged her smile for that of the
+voluptuary? It seemed as if those eyes,&mdash;that face were then playing
+in the light of their own native sphere. She was yet only eighteen,
+and had not been presented to the world, it having been thought by her
+guardians more fit that her presentation should be delayed until her
+brother's return from the continent, when he might be her protector.
+It was now, therefore, resolved that the next drawing-room, which was
+fast approaching, should be the epoch of her entry into the "busy
+scene." Aubrey would rather have remained in the mansion of his
+fathers, and fed upon the melancholy which overpowered him. He could
+not feel interest about the frivolities of fashionable strangers, when
+his mind had been so torn by the events he had witnessed; but he
+determined to sacrifice his own comfort to the protection of his
+sister. They soon arrived in town, and prepared for the next day,
+which had been announced as a drawing-room.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+The crowd was excessive&mdash;a drawing-room had not been held for a long
+time, and all who were anxious to bask in the smile of royalty,
+hastened thither. Aubrey was there with his sister. While he was
+standing in a corner by himself, heedless of all around him, engaged
+in the remembrance that the first time he had seen Lord Ruthven was in
+that very place&mdash;he felt himself suddenly seized by the arm, and a
+voice he recognized too well, sounded in his ear&mdash;"Remember your
+oath." He had hardly courage to turn, fearful of seeing a spectre
+that would blast him, when he perceived, at a little distance, the
+same figure which had attracted his notice on this spot upon his first
+entry into society. He gazed till his limbs almost refusing to bear
+their weight, he was obliged to take the arm of a friend, and forcing
+a passage through the crowd, he threw himself into his carriage, and
+was driven home. He paced the room with hurried steps, and fixed his
+hands upon his head, as if he were afraid his thoughts were bursting
+from his brain. Lord Ruthven again before him&mdash;circumstances started
+up in dreadful array&mdash;the dagger&mdash;his oath.&mdash;He roused himself, he
+could not believe it possible&mdash;the dead rise again!&mdash;He thought his
+imagination had conjured up the image his mind was resting upon. It
+was impossible that it could be real&mdash;he determined, therefore, to
+go again into society; for though he attempted to ask concerning Lord
+Ruthven, the name hung upon his lips, and he could not succeed in
+gaining information. He went a few nights after with his sister to the
+assembly of a near relation. Leaving her under the protection of a
+matron, he retired into a recess, and there gave himself up to his own
+devouring thoughts. Perceiving, at last, that many were leaving, he
+roused himself, and entering another room, found his sister surrounded
+by several, apparently in earnest conversation; he attempted to pass
+and get near her, when one, whom he requested to move, turned round,
+and revealed to him those features he most abhorred. He sprang
+forward, seized his sister's arm, and, with hurried step, forced her
+towards the street: at the door he found himself impeded by the crowd
+of servants who were waiting for their lords; and while he was engaged
+in passing them, he again heard that voice whisper close to
+him&mdash;"Remember your oath!"&mdash;He did not dare to turn, but, hurrying his
+sister, soon reached home.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Aubrey became almost distracted. If before his mind had been absorbed
+by one subject, how much more completely was it engrossed, now that
+the certainty of the monster's living again pressed upon his thoughts.
+His sister's attentions were now unheeded, and it was in vain that she
+intreated him to explain to her what had caused his abrupt conduct. He
+only uttered a few words, and those terrified her. The more he
+thought, the more he was bewildered. His oath startled him;&mdash;was he
+then to allow this monster to roam, bearing ruin upon his breath,
+amidst all he held dear, and not avert its progress? His very sister
+might have been touched by him. But even if he were to break his oath,
+and disclose his suspicions, who would believe him? He thought of
+employing his own hand to free the world from such a wretch; but
+death, he remembered, had been already mocked. For days he remained in
+this state; shut up in his room, he saw no one, and ate only when his
+sister came, who, with eyes streaming with tears, besought him, for
+her sake, to support nature. At last, no longer capable of bearing
+stillness and solitude, he left his house, roamed from street to
+street, anxious to fly that image which haunted him. His dress became
+neglected, and he wandered, as often exposed to the noon-day sun as to
+the midnight damps. He was no longer to be recognized; at first he
+returned with the evening to the house; but at last he laid him down
+to rest wherever fatigue overtook him. His sister, anxious for his
+safety, employed people to follow him; but they were soon distanced by
+him who fled from a pursuer swifter than any&mdash;from thought. His
+conduct, however, suddenly changed. Struck with the idea that he left
+by his absence the whole of his friends, with a fiend amongst them, of
+whose presence they were unconscious, he determined to enter again
+into society, and watch him closely, anxious to forewarn, in spite of
+his oath, all whom Lord Ruthven approached with intimacy. But when he
+entered into a room, his haggard and suspicious looks were so
+striking, his inward shudderings so visible, that his sister was at
+last obliged to beg of him to abstain from seeking, for her sake, a
+society which affected him so strongly. When, however, remonstrance
+proved unavailing, the guardians thought proper to interpose, and,
+fearing that his mind was becoming alienated, they thought it high
+time to resume again that trust which had been before imposed upon
+them by Aubrey's parents.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Desirous of saving him from the injuries and sufferings he had daily
+encountered in his wanderings, and of preventing him from exposing to
+the general eye those marks of what they considered folly, they
+engaged a physician to reside in the house, and take constant care of
+him. He hardly appeared to notice it, so completely was his mind
+absorbed by one terrible subject. His incoherence became at last so
+great, that he was confined to his chamber. There he would often lie
+for days, incapable of being roused. He had become emaciated, his eyes
+had attained a glassy lustre;&mdash;the only sign of affection and
+recollection remaining displayed itself upon the entry of his sister;
+then he would sometimes start, and, seizing her hands, with looks that
+severely afflicted her, he would desire her not to touch him. "Oh, do
+not touch him&mdash;if your love for me is aught, do not go near him!"
+When, however, she inquired to whom he referred, his only answer was,
+"True! true!" and again he sank into a state, whence not even she could
+rouse him. This lasted many months: gradually, however, as the year
+was passing, his incoherences became less frequent, and his mind threw
+off a portion of its gloom, whilst his guardians observed, that
+several times in the day he would count upon his fingers a definite
+number, and then smile.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+The time had nearly elapsed, when, upon the last day of the year, one
+of his guardians entering his room, began to converse with his
+physician upon the melancholy circumstance of Aubrey's being in so
+awful a situation, when his sister was going next day to be married.
+Instantly Aubrey's attention was attracted; he asked anxiously to
+whom. Glad of this mark of returning intellect, of which they feared
+he had been deprived, they mentioned the name of the Earl of Marsden.
+Thinking this was a young Earl whom he had met with in society, Aubrey
+seemed pleased, and astonished them still more by his expressing his
+intention to be present at the nuptials, and desiring to see his
+sister. They answered not, but in a few minutes his sister was with
+him. He was apparently again capable of being affected by the
+influence of her lovely smile; for he pressed her to his breast, and
+kissed her cheek, wet with tears, flowing at the thought of her
+brother's being once more alive to the feelings of affection. He began
+to speak with all his wonted warmth, and to congratulate her upon her
+marriage with a person so distinguished for rank and every
+accomplishment; when he suddenly perceived a locket upon her breast;
+opening it, what was his surprise at beholding the features of the
+monster who had so long influenced his life. He seized the portrait in
+a paroxysm of rage, and trampled it under foot. Upon her asking him
+why he thus destroyed the resemblance of her future husband, he looked
+as if he did not understand her&mdash;then seizing her hands, and gazing
+on her with a frantic expression of countenance, he bade her swear
+that she would never wed this monster, for he&mdash;&mdash;  But he could not
+advance&mdash;it seemed as if that voice again bade him remember his
+oath&mdash;he turned suddenly round, thinking Lord Ruthven was near him
+but saw no one. In the meantime the guardians and physician, who had
+heard the whole, and thought this was but a return of his disorder,
+entered, and forcing him from Miss Aubrey, desired her to leave him.
+He fell upon his knees to them, he implored, he begged of them to
+delay but for one day. They, attributing this to the insanity they
+imagined had taken possession of his mind, endeavoured to pacify him,
+and retired.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Lord Ruthven had called the morning after the drawing-room, and had
+been refused with every one else. When he heard of Aubrey's ill
+health, he readily understood himself to be the cause of it; but when
+he learned that he was deemed insane, his exultation and pleasure
+could hardly be concealed from those among whom he had gained this
+information. He hastened to the house of his former companion, and, by
+constant attendance, and the pretence of great affection for the
+brother and interest in his fate, he gradually won the ear of Miss
+Aubrey. Who could resist his power? His tongue had dangers and toils
+to recount&mdash;could speak of himself as of an individual having no
+sympathy with any being on the crowded earth, save with her to whom he
+addressed himself;&mdash;could tell how, since he knew her, his existence,
+had begun to seem worthy of preservation, if it were merely that he
+might listen to her soothing accents;&mdash;in fine, he knew so well how to
+use the serpent's art, or such was the will of fate, that he gained
+her affections. The title of the elder branch falling at length to
+him, he obtained an important embassy, which served as an excuse for
+hastening the marriage, (in spite of her brother's deranged state,)
+which was to take place the very day before his departure for the
+continent.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Aubrey, when he was left by the physician and his guardians, attempted
+to bribe the servants, but in vain. He asked for pen and paper; it was
+given him; he wrote a letter to his sister, conjuring her, as she
+valued her own happiness, her own honour, and the honour of those now
+in the grave, who once held her in their arms as their hope and the
+hope of their house, to delay but for a few hours that marriage, on
+which he denounced the most heavy curses. The servants promised they
+would deliver it; but giving it to the physician, he thought it better
+not to harass any more the mind of Miss Aubrey by, what he considered,
+the ravings of a maniac. Night passed on without rest to the busy
+inmates of the house; and Aubrey heard, with a horror that may more
+easily be conceived than described, the notes of busy preparation.
+Morning came, and the sound of carriages broke upon his ear. Aubrey
+grew almost frantic. The curiosity of the servants at last overcame
+their vigilance, they gradually stole away, leaving him in the custody
+of an helpless old woman. He seized the opportunity, with one bound
+was out of the room, and in a moment found himself in the apartment
+where all were nearly assembled. Lord Ruthven was the first to
+perceive him: he immediately approached, and, taking his arm by
+force, hurried him from the room, speechless with rage. When on the
+staircase, Lord Ruthven whispered in his ear&mdash;"Remember your oath,
+and know, if not my bride to day, your sister is dishonoured. Women
+are frail!" So saying, he pushed him towards his attendants, who,
+roused by the old woman, had come in search of him. Aubrey could no
+longer support himself; his rage not finding vent, had broken a
+blood-vessel, and he was conveyed to bed. This was not mentioned to
+his sister, who was not present when he entered, as the physician was
+afraid of agitating her. The marriage was solemnized, and the bride
+and bridegroom left London.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Aubrey's weakness increased; the effusion of blood produced symptoms
+of the near approach of death. He desired his sister's guardians might
+be called, and when the midnight hour had struck, he related
+composedly what the reader has perused&mdash;he died immediately after.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+The guardians hastened to protect Miss Aubrey; but when they arrived,
+it was too late. Lord Ruthven had disappeared, and Aubrey's sister had
+glutted the thirst of a VAMPYRE!
+</P>
+
+<BR><BR><BR>
+
+<HR ALIGN="center" WIDTH="90%">
+
+
+<H3 ALIGN="center">
+                         EXTRACT OF A LETTER,<BR>
+<BR>
+                        CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT<BR>
+                                  OF<BR>
+<BR>
+                        LORD BYRON'S RESIDENCE<BR>
+<BR>
+                                IN THE<BR>
+                         ISLAND OF MITYLENE.
+</H3>
+
+<HR ALIGN="center" WIDTH="90%">
+
+<BR>
+
+<H3 ALIGN="center">
+                               ACCOUNT<BR>
+                                  OF<BR>
+                     LORD BYRON'S RESIDENCE, &amp;c.
+</H3>
+
+<HR ALIGN="center" WIDTH="20%">
+
+<BR>
+
+<P>
+"The world was all before him, where to choose his place of rest, and
+                        Providence his guide."<BR>
+</P>
+
+<P>
+IN Sailing through the Grecian Archipelago, on board one of his
+Majesty's vessels, in the year 1812, we put into the harbour of
+Mitylene, in the island of that name. The beauty of this place, and
+the certain supply of cattle and vegetables always to be had there,
+induce many British vessels to visit it&mdash;both men of war and
+merchantmen; and though it lies rather out of the track for ships
+bound to Smyrna, its bounties amply repay for the deviation of a
+voyage. We landed; as usual, at the bottom of the bay, and whilst the
+men were employed in watering, and the purser bargaining for cattle
+with the natives, the clergyman and myself took a ramble to the cave
+called Homer's School, and other places, where we had been before. On
+the brow of Mount Ida (a small monticule so named) we met with and
+engaged a young Greek as our guide, who told us he had come from Scio
+with an English lord, who left the island four days previous to our
+arrival in his felucca. "He engaged me as a pilot," said the Greek,
+"and would have taken me with him; but I did not choose to quit
+Mitylene, where I am likely to get married. He was an odd, but a very
+good man. The cottage over the hill, facing the river, belongs to him,
+and he has left an old man in charge of it: he gave Dominick, the
+wine-trader, six hundred zechines for it, (about L250 English
+currency,) and has resided there about fourteen months, though not
+constantly; for he sails in his felucca very often to the different
+islands."
+</P>
+
+<P>
+This account excited our curiosity very much, and we lost no time in
+hastening to the house where our countryman had resided. We were
+kindly received by an old man, who conducted us over the mansion. It
+consisted of four apartments on the ground-floor&mdash;an entrance hall, a
+drawing-room, a sitting parlour, and a bed-room, with a spacious
+closet annexed. They were all simply decorated: plain green-stained
+walls, marble tables on either side, a large myrtle in the centre, and
+a small fountain beneath, which could be made to play through the
+branches by moving a spring fixed in the side of a small bronze Venus
+in a leaning posture; a large couch or sofa completed the furniture.
+In the hall stood half a dozen English cane chairs, and an empty
+book-case: there were no mirrors, nor a single painting. The
+bedchamber had merely a large mattress spread on the floor, with two
+stuffed cotton quilts and a pillow&mdash;the common bed throughout Greece.
+In the sitting-room we observed a marble recess, formerly, the old man
+told us, filled with books and papers, which were then in a large
+seaman's chest in the closet: it was open, but we did not think
+ourselves justified in examining the contents. On the tablet of the
+recess lay Voltaire's, Shakspeare's, Boileau's, and Rousseau's works
+complete; Volney's Ruins of Empires; Zimmerman, in the German
+language; Klopstock's Messiah; Kotzebue's novels; Schiller's play of
+the Robbers; Milton's Paradise Lost, an Italian edition, printed at
+Parma in 1810; several small pamphlets from the Greek press at
+Constantinople, much torn, but no English book of any description.
+Most of these books were filled with marginal notes, written with a
+pencil, in Italian and Latin. The Messiah was literally scribbled all
+over, and marked with slips of paper, on which also were remarks.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+The old man said: "The lord had been reading these books the evening
+before he sailed, and forgot to place them with the others; but,"
+said he, "there they must lie until his return; for he is so
+particular, that were I to move one thing without orders, he would
+frown upon me for a week together; he is otherways very good. I once
+did him a service; and I have the produce of this farm for the trouble
+of taking care of it, except twenty zechines which I pay to an aged
+Armenian who resides in a small cottage in the wood, and whom the lord
+brought here from Adrianople; I don't know for what reason."
+</P>
+
+<P>
+The appearance of the house externally was pleasing. The portico in
+front was fifty paces long and fourteen broad, and the fluted marble
+pillars with black plinths and fret-work cornices, (as it is now
+customary in Grecian architecture,) were considerably higher than the
+roof. The roof, surrounded by a light stone balustrade, was covered by
+a fine Turkey carpet, beneath an awning of strong coarse linen. Most
+of the house-tops are thus furnished, as upon them the Greeks pass
+their evenings in smoking, drinking light wines, such as "lachryma
+christi," eating fruit, and enjoying the evening breeze.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+On the left hand as we entered the house, a small streamlet glided
+away, grapes, oranges and limes were clustering together on its
+borders, and under the shade of two large myrtle bushes, a marble seat
+with an ornamental wooden back was placed, on which we were told, the
+lord passed many of his evenings and nights till twelve o'clock,
+reading, writing, and talking to himself. "I suppose," said the old
+man, "praying" for he was very devout, "and always attended our church
+twice a week, besides Sundays."
+</P>
+
+<P>
+The view from this seat was what may be termed "a bird's-eye view."
+A line of rich vineyards led the eye to Mount Calcla, covered with
+olive and myrtle trees in bloom, and on the summit of which an ancient
+Greek temple appeared in majestic decay. A small stream issuing from
+the ruins descended in broken cascades, until it was lost in the woods
+near the mountain's base. The sea smooth as glass, and an horizon
+unshadowed by a single cloud, terminates the view in front; and a
+little on the left, through a vista of lofty chesnut and palm-trees,
+several small islands were distinctly observed, studding the light
+blue wave with spots of emerald green. I seldom enjoyed a view more
+than I did this; but our enquiries were fruitless as to the name of
+the person who had resided in this romantic solitude: none knew his
+name but Dominick, his banker, who had gone to Candia. "The Armenian,"
+said our conductor, "could tell, but I am sure he will not,"&mdash;"And
+cannot you tell, old friend?" said I&mdash;"If I can," said he, "I dare
+not." We had not time to visit the Armenian, but on our return to the
+town we learnt several particulars of the isolated lord. He had
+portioned eight young girls when he was last upon the island, and even
+danced with them at the nuptial feast. He gave a cow to one man,
+horses to others, and cotton and silk to the girls who live by weaving
+these articles. He also bought a new boat for a fisherman who had lost
+his own in a gale, and he often gave Greek Testaments to the poor
+children. In short, he appeared to us, from all we collected, to have
+been a very eccentric and benevolent character. One circumstance we
+learnt, which our old friend at the cottage thought proper not to
+disclose. He had a most beautiful daughter, with whom the lord was
+often seen walking on the sea-shore, and he had bought her a
+piano-forte, and taught her himself the use of it.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+Such was the information with which we departed from the peaceful isle
+of Mitylene; our imaginations all on the rack, guessing who this
+rambler in Greece could be. He had money it was evident: he had
+philanthropy of disposition, and all those eccentricities which mark
+peculiar genius. Arrived at Palermo, all our doubts were dispelled.
+Falling in company with Mr. FOSTER, the architect, a pupil of WYATT'S,
+who had been travelling in Egypt and Greece, "The individual," said
+he, "about whom you are so anxious, is Lord Byron; I met him in my
+travels on the island of Tenedos, and I also visited him at Mitylene."
+We had never then heard of his lordship's fame, as we had been some
+years from home; but "Childe Harolde" being put into our hands we
+recognized the recluse of Calcla in every page. Deeply did we regret
+not having been more curious in our researches at the cottage, but we
+consoled ourselves with the idea of returning to Mitylene on some
+future day; but to me that day will never return. I make this
+statement, believing it not quite uninteresting, and in justice to his
+lordship's good name, which has been grossly slandered. He has been
+described as of an unfeeling disposition, averse to associating with
+human nature, or contributing in any way to sooth its sorrows, or add
+to its pleasures. The fact is directly the reverse, as may be plainly
+gathered from these little anecdotes. All the finer feelings of the
+heart, so elegantly depicted in his lordship's poems, seem to have
+their seat in his bosom. Tenderness, sympathy, and charity appear to
+guide all his actions: and his courting the repose of solitude is an
+additional reason for marking him as a being on whose heart Religion
+hath set her seal, and over whose head Benevolence hath thrown her
+mantle. No man can read the preceding pleasing "traits" without
+feeling proud of him as a countryman. With respect to his loves or
+pleasures, I do not assume a right to give an opinion. Reports are
+ever to be received with caution, particularly when directed against
+man's moral integrity; and he who dares justify himself before that
+awful tribunal where all must appear, alone may censure the errors of
+a fellow-mortal. Lord Byron's character is worthy of his genius. To do
+good in secret, and shun the world's applause, is the surest testimony
+of a virtuous heart and self-approving conscience.
+</P>
+
+<BR><BR>
+
+<P CLASS="finis">
+                               THE END
+</P>
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+
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+             Gillet, Printer, Crown-court, Fleet-street.<BR>
+</H5>
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+Author: John William Polidori
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+                                 THE
+
+                               VAMPYRE;
+
+                               A Tale.
+
+                       By John William Polidori
+
+
+
+                               LONDON
+
+                 PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES
+
+                           PATERNOSTER ROW
+
+
+                                1819
+
+              [Entered at Stationers' Hall, March 27, 1819]
+
+           Gillet, Printer, Crown Court, Fleet Street, London.
+
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+
+
+
+
+                         EXTRACT OF A LETTER
+
+                             FROM GENEVA.
+                            ______________
+
+"I breathe freely in the neighbourhood of this lake; the ground upon
+which I tread has been subdued from the earliest ages; the principal
+objects which immediately strike my eye, bring to my recollection
+scenes, in which man acted the hero and was the chief object of
+interest. Not to look back to earlier times of battles and sieges,
+here is the bust of Rousseau--here is a house with an inscription
+denoting that the Genevan philosopher first drew breath under its
+roof. A little out of the town is Ferney, the residence of Voltaire;
+where that wonderful, though certainly in many respects contemptible,
+character, received, like the hermits of old, the visits of pilgrims,
+not only from his own nation, but from the farthest boundaries of
+Europe. Here too is Bonnet's abode, and, a few steps beyond, the house
+of that astonishing woman Madame de Stael: perhaps the first of her
+sex, who has really proved its often claimed equality with, the nobler
+man. We have before had women who have written interesting novels and
+poems, in which their tact at observing drawing-room characters has
+availed them; but never since the days of Heloise have those faculties
+which are peculiar to man, been developed as the possible inheritance
+of woman. Though even here, as in the case of Heloise, our sex have
+not been backward in alledging the existence of an Abeilard in the
+person of M. Schlegel as the inspirer of her works. But to proceed:
+upon the same side of the lake, Gibbon, Bonnivard, Bradshaw, and
+others mark, as it were, the stages for our progress; whilst upon the
+other side there is one house, built by Diodati, the friend of Milton,
+which has contained within its walls, for several months, that poet
+whom we have so often read together, and who--if human passions remain
+the same, and human feelings, like chords, on being swept by nature's
+impulses shall vibrate as before--will be placed by posterity in the
+first rank of our English Poets. You must have heard, or the Third
+Canto of Childe Harold will have informed you, that Lord Byron resided
+many months in this neighbourhood. I went with some friends a few days
+ago, after having seen Ferney, to view this mansion. I trod the floors
+with the same feelings of awe and respect as we did, together, those
+of Shakespeare's dwelling at Stratford. I sat down in a chair of the
+saloon, and satisfied myself that I was resting on what he had made
+his constant seat. I found a servant there who had lived with him;
+she, however, gave me but little information. She pointed out his
+bed-chamber upon the same level as the saloon and dining-room, and
+informed me that he retired to rest at three, got up at two, and
+employed himself a long time over his toilette; that he never went to
+sleep without a pair of pistols and a dagger by his side, and that he
+never ate animal food. He apparently spent some part of every day upon
+the lake in an English boat. There is a balcony from the saloon which
+looks upon the lake and the mountain Jura; and I imagine, that it must
+have been hence, he contemplated the storm so magnificently described
+in the Third Canto; for you have from here a most extensive view of
+all the points he has therein depicted. I can fancy him like the
+scathed pine, whilst all around was sunk to repose, still waking to
+observe, what gave but a weak image of the storms which had desolated
+his own breast.
+
+  The sky is changed!--and such a change; Oh, night!
+  And storm and darkness, ye are wond'rous strong,
+  Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light
+  Of a dark eye in woman! Far along
+  From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,
+  Leaps the lire thunder! Not from one lone cloud,
+  But every mountain now hath found a tongue,
+  And Jura answers thro' her misty shroud,
+  Back to the joyous Alps who call to her aloud!
+
+  And this is in the night:--Most glorious night!
+  Thou wer't not sent for slumber! let me be
+  A sharer in thy far and fierce delight,--
+  A portion of the tempest and of me!
+  How the lit lake shines a phosphoric sea,
+  And the big rain comet dancing to the earth!
+  And now again 'tis black,--and now the glee
+  Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain mirth,
+  As if they did rejoice o'er a young; earthquake's birth,
+
+  Now where the swift Rhine cleaves his way between
+  Heights which appear, as lovers who have parted
+  In haste, whose mining depths so intervene,
+  That they can meet no more, tho' broken hearted;
+  Tho' in their souls which thus each other thwarted,
+  Love was the very root of the fond rage
+  Which blighted their life's bloom, and then departed--
+  Itself expired, but leaving; them an age
+  Of years all winter--war within themselves to wage.
+
+I went down to the little port, if I may use the expression, wherein
+his vessel used to lay, and conversed with the cottager, who had the
+care of it. You may smile, but I have my pleasure in thus helping my
+personification of the individual I admire, by attaining to the
+knowledge of those circumstances which were daily around him. I have
+made numerous enquiries in the town concerning him, but can learn
+nothing. He only went into society there once, when M. Pictet took him
+to the house of a lady to spend the evening. They say he is a very
+singular man, and seem to think him very uncivil. Amongst other things
+they relate, that having invited M. Pictet and Bonstetten to dinner,
+he went on the lake to Chillon, leaving a gentleman who travelled with
+him to receive them and make his apologies. Another evening, being
+invited to the house of Lady D---- H----, he promised to attend,
+but upon approaching the windows of her ladyship's villa, and
+perceiving the room to be full of company, he set down his friend,
+desiring him to plead his excuse, and immediately returned home. This
+will serve as a contradiction to the report which you tell me is
+current in England, of his having been avoided by his countrymen on
+the continent. The case happens to be directly the reverse, as he has
+been generally sought by them, though on most occasions, apparently
+without success. It is said, indeed, that upon paying his first visit
+at Coppet, following the servant who had announced his name, he was
+surprised to meet a lady carried out fainting; but before he had been
+seated many minutes, the same lady, who had been so affected at the
+sound of his name, returned and conversed with him a considerable
+time--such is female curiosity and affectation! He visited Coppet
+frequently, and of course associated there with several of his
+countrymen, who evinced no reluctance to meet him whom his enemies
+alone would represent as an outcast.
+
+Though I have been so unsuccessful in this town, I have been more
+fortunate in my enquiries elsewhere. There is a society three or four
+miles from Geneva, the centre of which is the Countess of Breuss, a
+Russian lady, well acquainted with the agremens de la Societe, and who
+has collected them round herself at her mansion. It was chiefly here,
+I find, that the gentleman who travelled with Lord Byron, as
+physician, sought for society. He used almost every day to cross the
+lake by himself, in one of their flat-bottomed boats, and return after
+passing the evening with his friends, about eleven or twelve at night,
+often whilst the storms were raging in the circling summits of the
+mountains around. As he became intimate, from long acquaintance, with
+several of the families in this neighbourhood, I have gathered from
+their accounts some excellent traits of his lordship's character,
+which I will relate to you at some future opportunity. I must,
+however, free him from one imputation attached to him--of having in
+his house two sisters as the partakers of his revels. This is, like
+many other charges which have been brought against his lordship,
+entirely destitute of truth. His only companion was the physician I
+have already mentioned. The report originated from the following
+circumstance: Mr. Percy Bysshe Shelly, a gentleman well known for
+extravagance of doctrine, and for his daring, in their profession,
+even to sign himself with the title of ATHeos in the Album at
+Chamouny, having taken a house below, in which he resided with Miss M.
+W. Godwin and Miss Clermont, (the daughters of the celebrated Mr.
+Godwin) they were frequently visitors at Diodati, and were often seen
+upon the lake with his Lordship, which gave rise to the report, the
+truth of which is here positively denied.
+
+Among other things which the lady, from whom I procured these
+anecdotes, related to me, she mentioned the outline of a ghost story
+by Lord Byron. It appears that one evening Lord B., Mr. P. B. Shelly,
+the two ladies and the gentleman before alluded to, after having
+perused a German work, which was entitled Phantasmagoriana, began
+relating ghost stories; when his lordship having recited the beginning
+of Christabel, then unpublished, the whole took so strong a hold of
+Mr. Shelly's mind, that he suddenly started up and ran out of the
+room. The physician and Lord Byron followed, and discovered him
+leaning against a mantle-piece, with cold drops of perspiration
+trickling down his face. After having given him something to refresh
+him, upon enquiring into the cause of his alarm, they found that his
+wild imagination having pictured to him the bosom of one of the ladies
+with eyes (which was reported of a lady in the neighbourhood where he
+lived) he was obliged to leave the room in order to destroy the
+impression. It was afterwards proposed, in the course of conversation,
+that each of the company present should write a tale depending upon
+some supernatural agency, which was undertaken by Lord B., the
+physician, and Miss M. W. Godwin.[1] My friend, the lady above
+referred to, had in her possession the outline of each of these
+stories; I obtained them as a great favour, and herewith forward them
+to you, as I was assured you would feel as much curiosity as myself,
+to peruse the ebauches of so great a genius, and those immediately
+under his influence."
+
+
+
+[1] Since published under the title of "Frankenstein; or, The Modern
+Prometheus."
+
+
+
+
+                             THE VAMPYRE.
+  ________________________________________________________________
+
+                            INTRODUCTION.
+                              __________
+
+THE superstition upon which this tale is founded is very general in
+the East. Among the Arabians it appears to be common: it did not,
+however, extend itself to the Greeks until after the establishment of
+Christianity; and it has only assumed its present form since the
+division of the Latin and Greek churches; at which time, the idea
+becoming prevalent, that a Latin body could not corrupt if buried in
+their territory, it gradually increased, and formed the subject of
+many wonderful stories, still extant, of the dead rising from their
+graves, and feeding upon the blood of the young and beautiful. In the
+West it spread, with some slight variation, all over Hungary, Poland,
+Austria, and Lorraine, where the belief existed, that vampyres nightly
+imbibed a certain portion of the blood of their victims, who became
+emaciated, lost their strength, and speedily died of consumptions;
+whilst these human blood-suckers fattened--and their veins became
+distended to such a state of repletion, as to cause the blood to flow
+from all the passages of their bodies, and even from the very pores of
+their skins.
+
+In the London Journal, of March, 1732, is a curious, and, of course,
+credible account of a particular case of vampyrism, which is stated to
+have occurred at Madreyga, in Hungary. It appears, that upon an
+examination of the commander-in-chief and magistrates of the place,
+they positively and unanimously affirmed, that, about five years
+before, a certain Heyduke, named Arnold Paul, had been heard to say,
+that, at Cassovia, on the frontiers of the Turkish Servia, he had been
+tormented by a vampyre, but had found a way to rid himself of the
+evil, by eating some of the earth out of the vampyre's grave, and
+rubbing himself with his blood. This precaution, however, did not
+prevent him from becoming a vampyre[2] himself; for, about twenty or
+thirty days after his death and burial, many persons complained of
+having been tormented by him, and a deposition was made, that four
+persons had been deprived of life by his attacks. To prevent further
+mischief, the inhabitants having consulted their Hadagni,[3] took up
+the body, and found it (as is supposed to be usual in cases of
+vampyrism) fresh, and entirely free from corruption, and emitting at
+the mouth, nose, and ears, pure and florid blood. Proof having been
+thus obtained, they resorted to the accustomed remedy. A stake was
+driven entirely through the heart and body of Arnold Paul, at which he
+is reported to have cried out as dreadfully as if he had been alive.
+This done, they cut off his head, burned his body, and threw the ashes
+into his grave. The same measures were adopted with the corses of
+those persons who had previously died from vampyrism, lest they
+should, in their turn, become agents upon others who survived them.
+
+
+
+[2] The universal belief is, that a person sucked by a vampyre becomes a
+vampyre himself, and sucks in his turn.
+
+[3] Chief bailiff.
+
+
+
+This monstrous rodomontade is here related, because it seems better
+adapted to illustrate the subject of the present observations than any
+other instance which could be adduced. In many parts of Greece it is
+considered as a sort of punishment after death, for some heinous crime
+committed whilst in existence, that the deceased is not only doomed to
+vampyrise, but compelled to confine his infernal visitations solely to
+those beings he loved most while upon earth--those to whom he was bound
+by ties of kindred and affection.--A supposition alluded to in the
+"Giaour."
+
+  But first on earth, as Vampyre sent,
+  Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent;
+  Then ghastly haunt the native place,
+  And suck the blood of all thy race;
+  There from thy daughter, sister, wife,
+  At midnight drain the stream of life;
+  Yet loathe the banquet which perforce
+  Must feed thy livid living corse,
+  Thy victims, ere they yet expire,
+  Shall know the demon for their sire;
+  As cursing thee, thou cursing them,
+  Thy flowers are withered on the stem.
+  But one that for thy crime must fall,
+  The youngest, best beloved of all,
+  Shall bless thee with a father's name--
+  That word shall wrap thy heart in flame!
+  Yet thou must end thy task and mark
+  Her cheek's last tinge--her eye's last spark,
+  And the last glassy glance must view
+  Which freezes o'er its lifeless blue;
+  Then with unhallowed hand shall tear
+  The tresses of her yellow hair,
+  Of which, in life a lock when shorn
+  Affection's fondest pledge was worn--
+  But now is borne away by thee
+  Memorial of thine agony!
+  Yet with thine own best blood shall drip;
+  Thy gnashing tooth, and haggard lip;
+  Then stalking to thy sullen grave,
+  Go--and with Gouls and Afrits rave,
+  Till these in horror shrink away
+  From spectre more accursed than they.
+
+Mr. Southey has also introduced in his wild but beautiful poem of
+"Thalaba," the vampyre corse of the Arabian maid Oneiza, who is
+represented as having returned from the grave for the purpose of
+tormenting him she best loved whilst in existence. But this cannot be
+supposed to have resulted from the sinfulness of her life, she being
+pourtrayed throughout the whole of the tale as a complete type of
+purity and innocence. The veracious Tournefort gives a long account in
+his travels of several astonishing cases of vampyrism, to which he
+pretends to have been an eyewitness; and Calmet, in his great work
+upon this subject, besides a variety of anecdotes, and traditionary
+narratives illustrative of its effects, has put forth some learned
+dissertations, tending to prove it to be a classical, as well as
+barbarian error.
+
+Many curious and interesting notices on this singularly horrible
+superstition might be added; though the present may suffice for the
+limits of a note, necessarily devoted to explanation, and which may
+now be concluded by merely remarking, that though the term Vampyre is
+the one in most general acceptation, there are several others
+synonymous with it, made use of in various parts of the world: as
+Vroucolocha, Vardoulacha, Goul, Broucoloka, &c.
+
+
+  ________________________________________________________________
+
+                             THE VAMPYRE.
+                              __________
+
+IT happened that in the midst of the dissipations attendant upon a
+London winter, there appeared at the various parties of the leaders of
+the ton a nobleman, more remarkable for his singularities, than his
+rank. He gazed upon the mirth around him, as if he could not
+participate therein. Apparently, the light laughter of the fair only
+attracted his attention, that he might by a look quell it, and throw
+fear into those breasts where thoughtlessness reigned. Those who felt
+this sensation of awe, could not explain whence it arose: some
+attributed it to the dead grey eye, which, fixing upon the object's
+face, did not seem to penetrate, and at one glance to pierce through
+to the inward workings of the heart; but fell upon the cheek with a
+leaden ray that weighed upon the skin it could not pass. His
+peculiarities caused him to be invited to every house; all wished to
+see him, and those who had been accustomed to violent excitement, and
+now felt the weight of ennui, were pleased at having something in
+their presence capable of engaging their attention. In spite of the
+deadly hue of his face, which never gained a warmer tint, either from
+the blush of modesty, or from the strong emotion of passion, though
+its form and outline were beautiful, many of the female hunters after
+notoriety attempted to win his attentions, and gain, at least, some
+marks of what they might term affection: Lady Mercer, who had been the
+mockery of every monster shewn in drawing-rooms since her marriage,
+threw herself in his way, and did all but put on the dress of a
+mountebank, to attract his notice:--though in vain:--when she
+stood before him, though his eyes were apparently fixed upon her's,
+still it seemed as if they were unperceived;--even her unappalled
+impudence was baffled, and she left the field. But though the common
+adultress could not influence even the guidance of his eyes, it was
+not that the female sex was indifferent to him: yet such was the
+apparent caution with which he spoke to the virtuous wife and innocent
+daughter, that few knew he ever addressed himself to females. He had,
+however, the reputation of a winning tongue; and whether it was that
+it even overcame the dread of his singular character, or that they
+were moved by his apparent hatred of vice, he was as often among those
+females who form the boast of their sex from their domestic virtues,
+as among those who sully it by their vices.
+
+About the same time, there came to London a young gentleman of the
+name of Aubrey: he was an orphan left with an only sister in the
+possession of great wealth, by parents who died while he was yet in
+childhood. Left also to himself by guardians, who thought it their
+duty merely to take care of his fortune, while they relinquished the
+more important charge of his mind to the care of mercenary subalterns,
+he cultivated more his imagination than his judgment. He had, hence,
+that high romantic feeling of honour and candour, which daily ruins so
+many milliners' apprentices. He believed all to sympathise with
+virtue, and thought that vice was thrown in by Providence merely for
+the picturesque effect of the scene, as we see in romances: he thought
+that the misery of a cottage merely consisted in the vesting of
+clothes, which were as warm, but which were better adapted to the
+painter's eye by their irregular folds and various coloured patches.
+He thought, in fine, that the dreams of poets were the realities of
+life. He was handsome, frank, and rich: for these reasons, upon his
+entering into the gay circles, many mothers surrounded him, striving
+which should describe with least truth their languishing or romping
+favourites: the daughters at the same time, by their brightening
+countenances when he approached, and by their sparkling eyes, when he
+opened his lips, soon led him into false notions of his talents and
+his merit. Attached as he was to the romance of his solitary hours,
+he was startled at finding, that, except in the tallow and wax candles
+that flickered, not from the presence of a ghost, but from want of
+snuffing, there was no foundation in real life for any of that
+congeries of pleasing pictures and descriptions contained in those
+volumes, from which he had formed his study. Finding, however, some
+compensation in his gratified vanity, he was about to relinquish his
+dreams, when the extraordinary being we have above described, crossed
+him in his career.
+
+He watched him; and the very impossibility of forming an idea of the
+character of a man entirely absorbed in himself, who gave few other
+signs of his observation of external objects, than the tacit assent to
+their existence, implied by the avoidance of their contact: allowing
+his imagination to picture every thing that flattered its propensity
+to extravagant ideas, he soon formed this object into the hero of a
+romance, and determined to observe the offspring of his fancy, rather
+than the person before him. He became acquainted with him, paid him
+attentions, and so far advanced upon his notice, that his presence was
+always recognised. He gradually learnt that Lord Ruthven's affairs
+were embarrassed, and soon found, from the notes of preparation in
+---- Street, that he was about to travel. Desirous of gaining some
+information respecting this singular character, who, till now, had
+only whetted his curiosity, he hinted to his guardians, that it was
+time for him to perform the tour, which for many generations has been
+thought necessary to enable the young to take some rapid steps in the
+career of vice towards putting themselves upon an equality with the
+aged, and not allowing them to appear as if fallen from the skies,
+whenever scandalous intrigues are mentioned as the subjects of
+pleasantry or of praise, according to the degree of skill shewn in
+carrying them on. They consented: and Aubrey immediately mentioning
+his intentions to Lord Ruthven, was surprised to receive from him a
+proposal to join him. Flattered by such a mark of esteem from him,
+who, apparently, had nothing in common with other men, he gladly
+accepted it, and in a few days they had passed the circling waters.
+
+Hitherto, Aubrey had had no opportunity of studying Lord Ruthven's
+character, and now he found, that, though many more of his actions
+were exposed to his view, the results offered different conclusions
+from the apparent motives to his conduct. His companion was profuse
+in his liberality;--the idle, the vagabond, and the beggar, received
+from his hand more than enough to relieve their immediate wants. But
+Aubrey could not avoid remarking, that it was not upon the virtuous,
+reduced to indigence by the misfortunes attendant even upon virtue,
+that he bestowed his alms;--these were sent from the door with
+hardly suppressed sneers; but when the profligate came to ask
+something, not to relieve his wants, but to allow him to wallow in his
+lust, or to sink him still deeper in his iniquity, he was sent away
+with rich charity. This was, however, attributed by him to the greater
+importunity of the vicious, which generally prevails over the retiring
+bashfulness of the virtuous indigent. There was one circumstance about
+the charity of his Lordship, which was still more impressed upon his
+mind: all those upon whom it was bestowed, inevitably found that there
+was a curse upon it, for they were all either led to the scaffold, or
+sunk to the lowest and the most abject misery. At Brussels and other
+towns through which they passed, Aubrey was surprized at the apparent
+eagerness with which his companion sought for the centres of all
+fashionable vice; there he entered into all the spirit of the faro
+table: he betted, and always gambled with success, except where the
+known sharper was his antagonist, and then he lost even more than he
+gained; but it was always with the same unchanging face, with which he
+generally watched the society around: it was not, however, so when he
+encountered the rash youthful novice, or the luckless father of a
+numerous family; then his very wish seemed fortune's law--this
+apparent abstractedness of mind was laid aside, and his eyes sparkled
+with more fire than that of the cat whilst dallying with the
+half-dead mouse. In every town, he left the formerly affluent youth,
+torn from the circle he adorned, cursing, in the solitude of a
+dungeon, the fate that had drawn him within the reach of this fiend;
+whilst many a father sat frantic, amidst the speaking looks of mute
+hungry children, without a single farthing of his late immense wealth,
+wherewith to buy even sufficient to satisfy their present craving. Yet
+he took no money from the gambling table; but immediately lost, to the
+ruiner of many, the last gilder he had just snatched from the
+convulsive grasp of the innocent: this might but be the result of a
+certain degree of knowledge, which was not, however, capable of
+combating the cunning of the more experienced. Aubrey often wished to
+represent this to his friend, and beg him to resign that charity and
+pleasure which proved the ruin of all, and did not tend to his own
+profit;--but he delayed it--for each day he hoped his friend would
+give him some opportunity of speaking frankly and openly to him;
+however, this never occurred. Lord Ruthven in his carriage, and amidst
+the various wild and rich scenes of nature, was always the same: his
+eye spoke less than his lip; and though Aubrey was near the object of
+his curiosity, he obtained no greater gratification from it than the
+constant excitement of vainly wishing to break that mystery, which to
+his exalted imagination began to assume the appearance of something
+supernatural.
+
+They soon arrived at Rome, and Aubrey for a time lost sight of his
+companion; he left him in daily attendance upon the morning circle of
+an Italian countess, whilst he went in search of the memorials of
+another almost deserted city. Whilst he was thus engaged, letters
+arrived from England, which he opened with eager impatience; the first
+was from his sister, breathing nothing but affection; the others were
+from his guardians, the latter astonished him; if it had before
+entered into his imagination that there was an evil power resident in
+his companion, these seemed to give him sufficient reason for the
+belief. His guardians insisted upon his immediately leaving his
+friend, and urged, that his character was dreadfully vicious, for that
+the possession of irresistible powers of seduction, rendered his
+licentious habits more dangerous to society. It had been discovered,
+that his contempt for the adultress had not originated in hatred of
+her character; but that he had required, to enhance his gratification,
+that his victim, the partner of his guilt, should be hurled from the
+pinnacle of unsullied virtue, down to the lowest abyss of infamy and
+degradation: in fine, that all those females whom he had sought,
+apparently on account of their virtue, had, since his departure,
+thrown even the mask aside, and had not scrupled to expose the whole
+deformity of their vices to the public gaze.
+
+Aubrey determined upon leaving one, whose character had not yet shown
+a single bright point on which to rest the eye. He resolved to invent
+some plausible pretext for abandoning him altogether, purposing, in
+the mean while, to watch him more closely, and to let no slight
+circumstances pass by unnoticed. He entered into the same circle, and
+soon perceived, that his Lordship was endeavouring to work upon the
+inexperience of the daughter of the lady whose house he chiefly
+frequented. In Italy, it is seldom that an unmarried female is met
+with in society; he was therefore obliged to carry on his plans in
+secret; but Aubrey's eye followed him in all his windings, and soon
+discovered that an assignation had been appointed, which would most
+likely end in the ruin of an innocent, though thoughtless girl. Losing
+no time, he entered the apartment of Lord Ruthven, and abruptly asked
+him his intentions with respect to the lady, informing him at the same
+time that he was aware of his being about to meet her that very night.
+Lord Ruthven answered, that his intentions were such as he supposed
+all would have upon such an occasion; and upon being pressed whether
+he intended to marry her, merely laughed. Aubrey retired; and,
+immediately writing a note, to say, that from that moment he must
+decline accompanying his Lordship in the remainder of their proposed
+tour, he ordered his servant to seek other apartments, and calling
+upon the mother of the lady, informed her of all he knew, not only
+with regard to her daughter, but also concerning the character of his
+Lordship. The assignation was prevented. Lord Ruthven next day merely
+sent his servant to notify his complete assent to a separation; but
+did not hint any suspicion of his plans having been foiled by Aubrey's
+interposition.
+
+Having left Rome, Aubrey directed his steps towards Greece, and
+crossing the Peninsula, soon found himself at Athens. He then fixed
+his residence in the house of a Greek; and soon occupied himself in
+tracing the faded records of ancient glory upon monuments that
+apparently, ashamed of chronicling the deeds of freemen only before
+slaves, had hidden themselves beneath the sheltering soil or many
+coloured lichen. Under the same roof as himself, existed a being, so
+beautiful and delicate, that she might have formed the model for a
+painter wishing to pourtray on canvass the promised hope of the
+faithful in Mahomet's paradise, save that her eyes spoke too much mind
+for any one to think she could belong to those who had no souls. As
+she danced upon the plain, or tripped along the mountain's side, one
+would have thought the gazelle a poor type of her beauties; for who
+would have exchanged her eye, apparently the eye of animated nature,
+for that sleepy luxurious look of the animal suited but to the taste
+of an epicure. The light step of Ianthe often accompanied Aubrey in
+his search after antiquities, and often would the unconscious girl,
+engaged in the pursuit of a Kashmere butterfly, show the whole beauty
+of her form, floating as it were upon the wind, to the eager gaze of
+him, who forgot the letters he had just decyphered upon an almost
+effaced tablet, in the contemplation of her sylph-like figure. Often
+would her tresses falling, as she flitted around, exhibit in the sun's
+ray such delicately brilliant and swiftly fading hues, it might well
+excuse the forgetfulness of the antiquary, who let escape from his
+mind the very object he had before thought of vital importance to the
+proper interpretation of a passage in Pausanias. But why attempt to
+describe charms which all feel, but none can appreciate?--It was
+innocence, youth, and beauty, unaffected by crowded drawing-rooms and
+stifling balls. Whilst he drew those remains of which he wished to
+preserve a memorial for his future hours, she would stand by, and
+watch the magic effects of his pencil, in tracing the scenes of her
+native place; she would then describe to him the circling dance upon
+the open plain, would paint, to him in all the glowing colours of
+youthful memory, the marriage pomp she remembered viewing in her
+infancy; and then, turning to subjects that had evidently made a
+greater impression upon her mind, would tell him all the supernatural
+tales of her nurse. Her earnestness and apparent belief of what she
+narrated, excited the interest even of Aubrey; and often as she told
+him the tale of the living vampyre, who had passed years amidst his
+friends, and dearest ties, forced every year, by feeding upon the life
+of a lovely female to prolong his existence for the ensuing months,
+his blood would run cold, whilst he attempted to laugh her out of such
+idle and horrible fantasies; but Ianthe cited to him the names of old
+men, who had at last detected one living among themselves, after
+several of their near relatives and children had been found marked
+with the stamp of the fiend's appetite; and when she found him so
+incredulous, she begged of him to believe her, for it had been,
+remarked, that those who had dared to question their existence, always
+had some proof given, which obliged them, with grief and
+heartbreaking, to confess it was true. She detailed to him the
+traditional appearance of these monsters, and his horror was
+increased, by hearing a pretty accurate description of Lord Ruthven;
+he, however, still persisted in persuading her, that there could be no
+truth in her fears, though at the same time he wondered at the many
+coincidences which had all tended to excite a belief in the
+supernatural power of Lord Ruthven.
+
+Aubrey began to attach himself more and more to Ianthe; her innocence,
+so contrasted with all the affected virtues of the women among whom he
+had sought for his vision of romance, won his heart; and while he
+ridiculed the idea of a young man of English habits, marrying an
+uneducated Greek girl, still he found himself more and more attached
+to the almost fairy form before him. He would tear himself at times
+from her, and, forming a plan for some antiquarian research, he would
+depart, determined not to return until his object was attained; but he
+always found it impossible to fix his attention upon the ruins around
+him, whilst in his mind he retained an image that seemed alone the
+rightful possessor of his thoughts. Ianthe was unconscious of his
+love, and was ever the same frank infantile being he had first known.
+She always seemed to part from him with reluctance; but it was because
+she had no longer any one with whom she could visit her favourite
+haunts, whilst her guardian was occupied in sketching or uncovering
+some fragment which had yet escaped the destructive hand of time. She
+had appealed to her parents on the subject of Vampyres, and they both,
+with several present, affirmed their existence, pale with horror at
+the very name. Soon after, Aubrey determined to proceed upon one of
+his excursions, which was to detain him for a few hours; when they
+heard the name of the place, they all at once begged of him not to
+return at night, as he must necessarily pass through a wood, where no
+Greek would ever remain, after the day had closed, upon any
+consideration. They described it as the resort of the vampyres in
+their nocturnal orgies, and denounced the most heavy evils as
+impending upon him who dared to cross their path. Aubrey made light of
+their representations, and tried to laugh them out of the idea; but
+when he saw them shudder at his daring thus to mock a superior,
+infernal power, the very name of which apparently made their blood
+freeze, he was silent.
+
+Next morning Aubrey set off upon his excursion unattended; he was
+surprised to observe the melancholy face of his host, and was
+concerned to find that his words, mocking the belief of those horrible
+fiends, had inspired them with such terror. When he was about to
+depart, Ianthe came to the side of his horse, and earnestly begged of
+him to return, ere night allowed the power of these beings to be put
+in action;--he promised. He was, however, so occupied in his
+research, that he did not perceive that day-light would soon end, and
+that in the horizon there was one of those specks which, in the warmer
+climates, so rapidly gather into a tremendous mass, and pour all their
+rage upon the devoted country.--He at last, however, mounted his
+horse, determined to make up by speed for his delay: but it was too
+late. Twilight, in these southern climates, is almost unknown;
+immediately the sun sets, night begins: and ere he had advanced far,
+the power of the storm was above--its echoing thunders had scarcely
+an interval of rest--its thick heavy rain forced its way through the
+canopying foliage, whilst the blue forked lightning seemed to fall and
+radiate at his very feet. Suddenly his horse took fright, and he was
+carried with dreadful rapidity through the entangled forest. The
+animal at last, through fatigue, stopped, and he found, by the glare
+of lightning, that he was in the neighbourhood of a hovel that hardly
+lifted itself up from the masses of dead leaves and brushwood which
+surrounded it. Dismounting, he approached, hoping to find some one to
+guide him to the town, or at least trusting to obtain shelter from the
+pelting of the storm. As he approached, the thunders, for a moment
+silent, allowed him to hear the dreadful shrieks of a woman mingling
+with the stifled, exultant mockery of a laugh, continued in one almost
+unbroken sound;--he was startled: but, roused by the thunder which
+again rolled over his head, he, with a sudden effort, forced open the
+door of the hut. He found himself in utter darkness: the sound,
+however, guided him. He was apparently unperceived; for, though he
+called, still the sounds continued, and no notice was taken of him. He
+found himself in contact with some one, whom he immediately seized;
+when a voice cried, "Again baffled!" to which a loud laugh succeeded;
+and he felt himself grappled by one whose strength seemed superhuman:
+determined to sell his life as dearly as he could, he struggled; but
+it was in vain: he was lifted from his feet and hurled with enormous
+force against the ground:--his enemy threw himself upon him, and
+kneeling upon his breast, had placed his hands upon his throat--when
+the glare of many torches penetrating through the hole that gave
+light in the day, disturbed him;--he instantly rose, and, leaving his
+prey, rushed through the door, and in a moment the crashing of the
+branches, as he broke through the wood, was no longer heard. The storm
+was now still; and Aubrey, incapable of moving, was soon heard by
+those without. They entered; the light of their torches fell upon the
+mud walls, and the thatch loaded on every individual straw with heavy
+flakes of soot. At the desire of Aubrey they searched for her who had
+attracted him by her cries; he was again left in darkness; but what
+was his horror, when the light of the torches once more burst upon
+him, to perceive the airy form of his fair conductress brought in a
+lifeless corse. He shut his eyes, hoping that it was but a vision
+arising from his disturbed imagination; but he again saw the same
+form, when he unclosed them, stretched by his side. There was no
+colour upon her cheek, not even upon her lip; yet there was a
+stillness about her face that seemed almost as attaching as the life
+that once dwelt there:--upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon
+her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein:--to this
+the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "A
+Vampyre! a Vampyre!" A litter was quickly formed, and Aubrey was laid
+by the side of her who had lately been to him the object of so many
+bright and fairy visions, now fallen with the flower of life that had
+died within her. He knew not what his thoughts were--his mind was
+benumbed and seemed to shun reflection, and take refuge in
+vacancy--he held almost unconsciously in his hand a naked dagger of a
+particular construction, which had been found in the hut. They were
+soon met by different parties who had been engaged in the search of
+her whom a mother had missed. Their lamentable cries, as they
+approached the city, forewarned the parents of some dreadful
+catastrophe. --To describe their grief would be impossible; but when
+they ascertained the cause of their child's death, they looked at
+Aubrey, and pointed to the corse. They were inconsolable; both died
+broken-hearted.
+
+Aubrey being put to bed was seized with a most violent fever, and was
+often delirious; in these intervals he would call upon Lord Ruthven
+and upon Ianthe--by some unaccountable combination he seemed to beg
+of his former companion to spare the being he loved. At other times he
+would imprecate maledictions upon his head, and curse him as her
+destroyer. Lord Ruthven, chanced at this time to arrive at Athens,
+and, from whatever motive, upon hearing of the state of Aubrey,
+immediately placed himself in the same house, and became his constant
+attendant. When the latter recovered from his delirium, he was
+horrified and startled at the sight of him whose image he had now
+combined with that of a Vampyre; but Lord Ruthven, by his kind words,
+implying almost repentance for the fault that had caused their
+separation, and still more by the attention, anxiety, and care which
+he showed, soon reconciled him to his presence. His lordship seemed
+quite changed; he no longer appeared that apathetic being who had so
+astonished Aubrey; but as soon as his convalescence began to be rapid,
+he again gradually retired into the same state of mind, and Aubrey
+perceived no difference from the former man, except that at times he
+was surprised to meet his gaze fixed intently upon him, with a smile
+of malicious exultation playing upon his lips: he knew not why, but
+this smile haunted him. During the last stage of the invalid's
+recovery, Lord Ruthven was apparently engaged in watching the tideless
+waves raised by the cooling breeze, or in marking the progress of
+those orbs, circling, like our world, the moveless sun;--indeed, he
+appeared to wish to avoid the eyes of all.
+
+Aubrey's mind, by this shock, was much weakened, and that elasticity
+of spirit which had once so distinguished him now seemed to have fled
+for ever. He was now as much a lover of solitude and silence as Lord
+Ruthven; but much as he wished for solitude, his mind could not find
+it in the neighbourhood of Athens; if he sought it amidst the ruins he
+had formerly frequented, Ianthe's form stood by his side--if he
+sought it in the woods, her light step would appear wandering amidst
+the underwood, in quest of the modest violet; then suddenly turning
+round, would show, to his wild imagination, her pale face and wounded
+throat, with a meek smile upon her lips. He determined to fly scenes,
+every feature of which created such bitter associations in his mind.
+He proposed to Lord Ruthven, to whom he held himself bound by the
+tender care he had taken of him during his illness, that they should
+visit those parts of Greece neither had yet seen. They travelled in
+every direction, and sought every spot to which a recollection could
+be attached: but though they thus hastened from place to place, yet
+they seemed not to heed what they gazed upon. They heard much of
+robbers, but they gradually began to slight these reports, which they
+imagined were only the invention of individuals, whose interest it was
+to excite the generosity of those whom they defended from pretended
+dangers. In consequence of thus neglecting the advice of the
+inhabitants, on one occasion they travelled with only a few guards,
+more to serve as guides than as a defence. Upon entering, however, a
+narrow defile, at the bottom of which was the bed of a torrent, with
+large masses of rock brought down from the neighbouring precipices,
+they had reason to repent their negligence; for scarcely were the
+whole of the party engaged in the narrow pass, when they were startled
+by the whistling of bullets close to their heads, and by the echoed
+report of several guns. In an instant their guards had left them, and,
+placing themselves behind rocks, had begun to fire in the direction
+whence the report came. Lord Ruthven and Aubrey, imitating their
+example, retired for a moment behind the sheltering turn of the
+defile: but ashamed of being thus detained by a foe, who with
+insulting shouts bade them advance, and being exposed to unresisting
+slaughter, if any of the robbers should climb above and take them in
+the rear, they determined at once to rush forward in search of the
+enemy. Hardly had they lost the shelter of the rock, when Lord Ruthven
+received a shot in the shoulder, which brought him to the ground.
+Aubrey hastened to his assistance; and, no longer heeding the contest
+or his own peril, was soon surprised by seeing the robbers' faces
+around him--his guards having, upon Lord Ruthven's being wounded,
+immediately thrown up their arms and surrendered.
+
+By promises of great reward, Aubrey soon induced them to convey his
+wounded friend to a neighbouring cabin; and having agreed upon a
+ransom, he was no more disturbed by their presence--they being
+content merely to guard the entrance till their comrade should return
+with the promised sum, for which he had an order. Lord Ruthven's
+strength rapidly decreased; in two days mortification ensued, and
+death seemed advancing with hasty steps. His conduct and appearance
+had not changed; he seemed as unconscious of pain as he had been of
+the objects about him: but towards the close of the last evening, his
+mind became apparently uneasy, and his eye often fixed upon Aubrey,
+who was induced to offer his assistance with more than usual
+earnestness--"Assist me! you may save me--you may do more than
+that--I mean not my life, I heed the death of my existence as little
+as that of the passing day; but you may save my honour, your friend's
+honour."--"How? tell me how? I would do any thing," replied Aubrey.--"I
+need but little--my life ebbs apace--I cannot explain the
+whole--but if you would conceal all you know of me, my honour were
+free from stain in the world's mouth--and if my death were unknown
+for some time in England--I--I--but life."--"It shall not be
+known."--"Swear!" cried the dying man, raising himself with exultant
+violence, "Swear by all your soul reveres, by all your nature fears,
+swear that, for a year and a day you will not impart your knowledge of
+my crimes or death to any living being in any way, whatever may
+happen, or whatever you may see. "--His eyes seemed bursting from
+their sockets: "I swear!" said Aubrey; he sunk laughing upon his
+pillow, and breathed no more.
+
+Aubrey retired to rest, but did not sleep; the many circumstances
+attending his acquaintance with this man rose upon his mind, and he
+knew not why; when he remembered his oath a cold shivering came over
+him, as if from the presentiment of something horrible awaiting him.
+Rising early in the morning, he was about to enter the hovel in which
+he had left the corpse, when a robber met him, and informed him that
+it was no longer there, having been conveyed by himself and comrades,
+upon his retiring, to the pinnacle of a neighbouring mount, according
+to a promise they had given his lordship, that it should be exposed to
+the first cold ray of the moon that rose after his death. Aubrey
+astonished, and taking several of the men, determined to go and bury
+it upon the spot where it lay. But, when he had mounted to the summit
+he found no trace of either the corpse or the clothes, though the
+robbers swore they pointed out the identical rock on which they had
+laid the body. For a time his mind was bewildered in conjectures, but
+he at last returned, convinced that they had buried the corpse for the
+sake of the clothes.
+
+Weary of a country in which he had met with such terrible misfortunes,
+and in which all apparently conspired to heighten that superstitious
+melancholy that had seized upon his mind, he resolved to leave it, and
+soon arrived at Smyrna. While waiting for a vessel to convey him to
+Otranto, or to Naples, he occupied himself in arranging those effects
+he had with him belonging to Lord Ruthven. Amongst other things there
+was a case containing several weapons of offence, more or less adapted
+to ensure the death of the victim. There were several daggers and
+ataghans. Whilst turning them over, and examining their curious forms,
+what was his surprise at finding a sheath apparently ornamented in the
+same style as the dagger discovered in the fatal hut--he
+shuddered--hastening to gain further proof, he found the weapon, and
+his horror may be imagined when he discovered that it fitted, though
+peculiarly shaped, the sheath he held in his hand. His eyes seemed to
+need no further certainty--they seemed gazing to be bound to the
+dagger; yet still he wished to disbelieve; but the particular form,
+the same varying tints upon the haft and sheath were alike in
+splendour on both, and left no room for doubt; there were also drops
+of blood on each.
+
+He left Smyrna, and on his way home, at Rome, his first inquiries were
+concerning the lady he had attempted to snatch from Lord Ruthven's
+seductive arts. Her parents were in distress, their fortune ruined,
+and she had not been heard of since the departure of his lordship.
+Aubrey's mind became almost broken under so many repeated horrors; he
+was afraid that this lady had fallen a victim to the destroyer of
+Ianthe. He became morose and silent; and his only occupation consisted
+in urging the speed of the postilions, as if he were going to save the
+life of some one he held dear. He arrived at Calais; a breeze, which
+seemed obedient to his will, soon wafted him to the English shores;
+and he hastened to the mansion of his fathers, and there, for a
+moment, appeared to lose, in the embraces and caresses of his sister,
+all memory of the past. If she before, by her infantine caresses, had
+gained his affection, now that the woman began to appear, she was
+still more attaching as a companion.
+
+Miss Aubrey had not that winning grace which gains the gaze and
+applause of the drawing-room assemblies. There was none of that light
+brilliancy which only exists in the heated atmosphere of a crowded
+apartment. Her blue eye was never lit up by the levity of the mind
+beneath. There was a melancholy charm about it which did not seem to
+arise from misfortune, but from some feeling within, that appeared to
+indicate a soul conscious of a brighter realm. Her step was not that
+light footing, which strays where'er a butterfly or a colour may
+attract--it was sedate and pensive. When alone, her face was never
+brightened by the smile of joy; but when her brother breathed to her
+his affection, and would in her presence forget those griefs she knew
+destroyed his rest, who would have exchanged her smile for that of the
+voluptuary? It seemed as if those eyes,--that face were then playing
+in the light of their own native sphere. She was yet only eighteen,
+and had not been presented to the world, it having been thought by her
+guardians more fit that her presentation should be delayed until her
+brother's return from the continent, when he might be her protector.
+It was now, therefore, resolved that the next drawing-room, which was
+fast approaching, should be the epoch of her entry into the "busy
+scene." Aubrey would rather have remained in the mansion of his
+fathers, and fed upon the melancholy which overpowered him. He could
+not feel interest about the frivolities of fashionable strangers, when
+his mind had been so torn by the events he had witnessed; but he
+determined to sacrifice his own comfort to the protection of his
+sister. They soon arrived in town, and prepared for the next day,
+which had been announced as a drawing-room.
+
+The crowd was excessive--a drawing-room had not been held for a long
+time, and all who were anxious to bask in the smile of royalty,
+hastened thither. Aubrey was there with his sister. While he was
+standing in a corner by himself, heedless of all around him, engaged
+in the remembrance that the first time he had seen Lord Ruthven was in
+that very place--he felt himself suddenly seized by the arm, and a
+voice he recognized too well, sounded in his ear--"Remember your
+oath." He had hardly courage to turn, fearful of seeing a spectre
+that would blast him, when he perceived, at a little distance, the
+same figure which had attracted his notice on this spot upon his first
+entry into society. He gazed till his limbs almost refusing to bear
+their weight, he was obliged to take the arm of a friend, and forcing
+a passage through the crowd, he threw himself into his carriage, and
+was driven home. He paced the room with hurried steps, and fixed his
+hands upon his head, as if he were afraid his thoughts were bursting
+from his brain. Lord Ruthven again before him--circumstances started
+up in dreadful array--the dagger--his oath.--He roused himself, he
+could not believe it possible--the dead rise again!--He thought his
+imagination had conjured up the image his mind was resting upon. It
+was impossible that it could be real--he determined, therefore, to
+go again into society; for though he attempted to ask concerning Lord
+Ruthven, the name hung upon his lips, and he could not succeed in
+gaining information. He went a few nights after with his sister to the
+assembly of a near relation. Leaving her under the protection of a
+matron, he retired into a recess, and there gave himself up to his own
+devouring thoughts. Perceiving, at last, that many were leaving, he
+roused himself, and entering another room, found his sister surrounded
+by several, apparently in earnest conversation; he attempted to pass
+and get near her, when one, whom he requested to move, turned round,
+and revealed to him those features he most abhorred. He sprang
+forward, seized his sister's arm, and, with hurried step, forced her
+towards the street: at the door he found himself impeded by the crowd
+of servants who were waiting for their lords; and while he was engaged
+in passing them, he again heard that voice whisper close to
+him--"Remember your oath!"--He did not dare to turn, but, hurrying his
+sister, soon reached home.
+
+Aubrey became almost distracted. If before his mind had been absorbed
+by one subject, how much more completely was it engrossed, now that
+the certainty of the monster's living again pressed upon his thoughts.
+His sister's attentions were now unheeded, and it was in vain that she
+intreated him to explain to her what had caused his abrupt conduct. He
+only uttered a few words, and those terrified her. The more he
+thought, the more he was bewildered. His oath startled him;--was he
+then to allow this monster to roam, bearing ruin upon his breath,
+amidst all he held dear, and not avert its progress? His very sister
+might have been touched by him. But even if he were to break his oath,
+and disclose his suspicions, who would believe him? He thought of
+employing his own hand to free the world from such a wretch; but
+death, he remembered, had been already mocked. For days he remained in
+this state; shut up in his room, he saw no one, and ate only when his
+sister came, who, with eyes streaming with tears, besought him, for
+her sake, to support nature. At last, no longer capable of bearing
+stillness and solitude, he left his house, roamed from street to
+street, anxious to fly that image which haunted him. His dress became
+neglected, and he wandered, as often exposed to the noon-day sun as to
+the midnight damps. He was no longer to be recognized; at first he
+returned with the evening to the house; but at last he laid him down
+to rest wherever fatigue overtook him. His sister, anxious for his
+safety, employed people to follow him; but they were soon distanced by
+him who fled from a pursuer swifter than any--from thought. His
+conduct, however, suddenly changed. Struck with the idea that he left
+by his absence the whole of his friends, with a fiend amongst them, of
+whose presence they were unconscious, he determined to enter again
+into society, and watch him closely, anxious to forewarn, in spite of
+his oath, all whom Lord Ruthven approached with intimacy. But when he
+entered into a room, his haggard and suspicious looks were so
+striking, his inward shudderings so visible, that his sister was at
+last obliged to beg of him to abstain from seeking, for her sake, a
+society which affected him so strongly. When, however, remonstrance
+proved unavailing, the guardians thought proper to interpose, and,
+fearing that his mind was becoming alienated, they thought it high
+time to resume again that trust which had been before imposed upon
+them by Aubrey's parents.
+
+Desirous of saving him from the injuries and sufferings he had daily
+encountered in his wanderings, and of preventing him from exposing to
+the general eye those marks of what they considered folly, they
+engaged a physician to reside in the house, and take constant care of
+him. He hardly appeared to notice it, so completely was his mind
+absorbed by one terrible subject. His incoherence became at last so
+great, that he was confined to his chamber. There he would often lie
+for days, incapable of being roused. He had become emaciated, his eyes
+had attained a glassy lustre;--the only sign of affection and
+recollection remaining displayed itself upon the entry of his sister;
+then he would sometimes start, and, seizing her hands, with looks that
+severely afflicted her, he would desire her not to touch him. "Oh, do
+not touch him--if your love for me is aught, do not go near him!"
+When, however, she inquired to whom he referred, his only answer was,
+"True! true!" and again he sank into a state, whence not even she could
+rouse him. This lasted many months: gradually, however, as the year
+was passing, his incoherences became less frequent, and his mind threw
+off a portion of its gloom, whilst his guardians observed, that
+several times in the day he would count upon his fingers a definite
+number, and then smile.
+
+The time had nearly elapsed, when, upon the last day of the year, one
+of his guardians entering his room, began to converse with his
+physician upon the melancholy circumstance of Aubrey's being in so
+awful a situation, when his sister was going next day to be married.
+Instantly Aubrey's attention was attracted; he asked anxiously to
+whom. Glad of this mark of returning intellect, of which they feared
+he had been deprived, they mentioned the name of the Earl of Marsden.
+Thinking this was a young Earl whom he had met with in society, Aubrey
+seemed pleased, and astonished them still more by his expressing his
+intention to be present at the nuptials, and desiring to see his
+sister. They answered not, but in a few minutes his sister was with
+him. He was apparently again capable of being affected by the
+influence of her lovely smile; for he pressed her to his breast, and
+kissed her cheek, wet with tears, flowing at the thought of her
+brother's being once more alive to the feelings of affection. He began
+to speak with all his wonted warmth, and to congratulate her upon her
+marriage with a person so distinguished for rank and every
+accomplishment; when he suddenly perceived a locket upon her breast;
+opening it, what was his surprise at beholding the features of the
+monster who had so long influenced his life. He seized the portrait in
+a paroxysm of rage, and trampled it under foot. Upon her asking him
+why he thus destroyed the resemblance of her future husband, he looked
+as if he did not understand her--then seizing her hands, and gazing
+on her with a frantic expression of countenance, he bade her swear
+that she would never wed this monster, for he----  But he could not
+advance--it seemed as if that voice again bade him remember his
+oath--he turned suddenly round, thinking Lord Ruthven was near him
+but saw no one. In the meantime the guardians and physician, who had
+heard the whole, and thought this was but a return of his disorder,
+entered, and forcing him from Miss Aubrey, desired her to leave him.
+He fell upon his knees to them, he implored, he begged of them to
+delay but for one day. They, attributing this to the insanity they
+imagined had taken possession of his mind, endeavoured to pacify him,
+and retired.
+
+Lord Ruthven had called the morning after the drawing-room, and had
+been refused with every one else. When he heard of Aubrey's ill
+health, he readily understood himself to be the cause of it; but when
+he learned that he was deemed insane, his exultation and pleasure
+could hardly be concealed from those among whom he had gained this
+information. He hastened to the house of his former companion, and, by
+constant attendance, and the pretence of great affection for the
+brother and interest in his fate, he gradually won the ear of Miss
+Aubrey. Who could resist his power? His tongue had dangers and toils
+to recount--could speak of himself as of an individual having no
+sympathy with any being on the crowded earth, save with her to whom he
+addressed himself;--could tell how, since he knew her, his existence,
+had begun to seem worthy of preservation, if it were merely that he
+might listen to her soothing accents;--in fine, he knew so well how to
+use the serpent's art, or such was the will of fate, that he gained
+her affections. The title of the elder branch falling at length to
+him, he obtained an important embassy, which served as an excuse for
+hastening the marriage, (in spite of her brother's deranged state,)
+which was to take place the very day before his departure for the
+continent.
+
+Aubrey, when he was left by the physician and his guardians, attempted
+to bribe the servants, but in vain. He asked for pen and paper; it was
+given him; he wrote a letter to his sister, conjuring her, as she
+valued her own happiness, her own honour, and the honour of those now
+in the grave, who once held her in their arms as their hope and the
+hope of their house, to delay but for a few hours that marriage, on
+which he denounced the most heavy curses. The servants promised they
+would deliver it; but giving it to the physician, he thought it better
+not to harass any more the mind of Miss Aubrey by, what he considered,
+the ravings of a maniac. Night passed on without rest to the busy
+inmates of the house; and Aubrey heard, with a horror that may more
+easily be conceived than described, the notes of busy preparation.
+Morning came, and the sound of carriages broke upon his ear. Aubrey
+grew almost frantic. The curiosity of the servants at last overcame
+their vigilance, they gradually stole away, leaving him in the custody
+of an helpless old woman. He seized the opportunity, with one bound
+was out of the room, and in a moment found himself in the apartment
+where all were nearly assembled. Lord Ruthven was the first to
+perceive him: he immediately approached, and, taking his arm by
+force, hurried him from the room, speechless with rage. When on the
+staircase, Lord Ruthven whispered in his ear--"Remember your oath,
+and know, if not my bride to day, your sister is dishonoured. Women
+are frail!" So saying, he pushed him towards his attendants, who,
+roused by the old woman, had come in search of him. Aubrey could no
+longer support himself; his rage not finding vent, had broken a
+blood-vessel, and he was conveyed to bed. This was not mentioned to
+his sister, who was not present when he entered, as the physician was
+afraid of agitating her. The marriage was solemnized, and the bride
+and bridegroom left London.
+
+Aubrey's weakness increased; the effusion of blood produced symptoms
+of the near approach of death. He desired his sister's guardians might
+be called, and when the midnight hour had struck, he related
+composedly what the reader has perused--he died immediately after.
+
+The guardians hastened to protect Miss Aubrey; but when they arrived,
+it was too late. Lord Ruthven had disappeared, and Aubrey's sister had
+glutted the thirst of a VAMPYRE!
+
+
+  ________________________________________________________________
+
+                         EXTRACT OF A LETTER,
+
+                        CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT
+
+                                  OF
+
+                        LORD BYRON'S RESIDENCE
+
+                                IN THE
+
+                         ISLAND OF MITYLENE.
+  ________________________________________________________________
+
+                               ACCOUNT
+
+                                  OF
+
+                     LORD BYRON'S RESIDENCE, &c.
+                            ______________
+
+"The world was all before him, where to choose his place of rest, and
+                        Providence his guide."
+
+IN Sailing through the Grecian Archipelago, on board one of his
+Majesty's vessels, in the year 1812, we put into the harbour of
+Mitylene, in the island of that name. The beauty of this place, and
+the certain supply of cattle and vegetables always to be had there,
+induce many British vessels to visit it--both men of war and
+merchantmen; and though it lies rather out of the track for ships
+bound to Smyrna, its bounties amply repay for the deviation of a
+voyage. We landed; as usual, at the bottom of the bay, and whilst the
+men were employed in watering, and the purser bargaining for cattle
+with the natives, the clergyman and myself took a ramble to the cave
+called Homer's School, and other places, where we had been before. On
+the brow of Mount Ida (a small monticule so named) we met with and
+engaged a young Greek as our guide, who told us he had come from Scio
+with an English lord, who left the island four days previous to our
+arrival in his felucca. "He engaged me as a pilot," said the Greek,
+"and would have taken me with him; but I did not choose to quit
+Mitylene, where I am likely to get married. He was an odd, but a very
+good man. The cottage over the hill, facing the river, belongs to him,
+and he has left an old man in charge of it: he gave Dominick, the
+wine-trader, six hundred zechines for it, (about L250 English
+currency,) and has resided there about fourteen months, though not
+constantly; for he sails in his felucca very often to the different
+islands."
+
+This account excited our curiosity very much, and we lost no time in
+hastening to the house where our countryman had resided. We were
+kindly received by an old man, who conducted us over the mansion. It
+consisted of four apartments on the ground-floor--an entrance hall, a
+drawing-room, a sitting parlour, and a bed-room, with a spacious
+closet annexed. They were all simply decorated: plain green-stained
+walls, marble tables on either side, a large myrtle in the centre, and
+a small fountain beneath, which could be made to play through the
+branches by moving a spring fixed in the side of a small bronze Venus
+in a leaning posture; a large couch or sofa completed the furniture.
+In the hall stood half a dozen English cane chairs, and an empty
+book-case: there were no mirrors, nor a single painting. The
+bedchamber had merely a large mattress spread on the floor, with two
+stuffed cotton quilts and a pillow--the common bed throughout Greece.
+In the sitting-room we observed a marble recess, formerly, the old man
+told us, filled with books and papers, which were then in a large
+seaman's chest in the closet: it was open, but we did not think
+ourselves justified in examining the contents. On the tablet of the
+recess lay Voltaire's, Shakspeare's, Boileau's, and Rousseau's works
+complete; Volney's Ruins of Empires; Zimmerman, in the German
+language; Klopstock's Messiah; Kotzebue's novels; Schiller's play of
+the Robbers; Milton's Paradise Lost, an Italian edition, printed at
+Parma in 1810; several small pamphlets from the Greek press at
+Constantinople, much torn, but no English book of any description.
+Most of these books were filled with marginal notes, written with a
+pencil, in Italian and Latin. The Messiah was literally scribbled all
+over, and marked with slips of paper, on which also were remarks.
+
+The old man said: "The lord had been reading these books the evening
+before he sailed, and forgot to place them with the others; but,"
+said he, "there they must lie until his return; for he is so
+particular, that were I to move one thing without orders, he would
+frown upon me for a week together; he is otherways very good. I once
+did him a service; and I have the produce of this farm for the trouble
+of taking care of it, except twenty zechines which I pay to an aged
+Armenian who resides in a small cottage in the wood, and whom the lord
+brought here from Adrianople; I don't know for what reason."
+
+The appearance of the house externally was pleasing. The portico in
+front was fifty paces long and fourteen broad, and the fluted marble
+pillars with black plinths and fret-work cornices, (as it is now
+customary in Grecian architecture,) were considerably higher than the
+roof. The roof, surrounded by a light stone balustrade, was covered by
+a fine Turkey carpet, beneath an awning of strong coarse linen. Most
+of the house-tops are thus furnished, as upon them the Greeks pass
+their evenings in smoking, drinking light wines, such as "lachryma
+christi," eating fruit, and enjoying the evening breeze.
+
+On the left hand as we entered the house, a small streamlet glided
+away, grapes, oranges and limes were clustering together on its
+borders, and under the shade of two large myrtle bushes, a marble seat
+with an ornamental wooden back was placed, on which we were told, the
+lord passed many of his evenings and nights till twelve o'clock,
+reading, writing, and talking to himself. "I suppose," said the old
+man, "praying" for he was very devout, "and always attended our church
+twice a week, besides Sundays."
+
+The view from this seat was what may be termed "a bird's-eye view."
+A line of rich vineyards led the eye to Mount Calcla, covered with
+olive and myrtle trees in bloom, and on the summit of which an ancient
+Greek temple appeared in majestic decay. A small stream issuing from
+the ruins descended in broken cascades, until it was lost in the woods
+near the mountain's base. The sea smooth as glass, and an horizon
+unshadowed by a single cloud, terminates the view in front; and a
+little on the left, through a vista of lofty chesnut and palm-trees,
+several small islands were distinctly observed, studding the light
+blue wave with spots of emerald green. I seldom enjoyed a view more
+than I did this; but our enquiries were fruitless as to the name of
+the person who had resided in this romantic solitude: none knew his
+name but Dominick, his banker, who had gone to Candia. "The Armenian,"
+said our conductor, "could tell, but I am sure he will not,"--"And
+cannot you tell, old friend?" said I--"If I can," said he, "I dare
+not." We had not time to visit the Armenian, but on our return to the
+town we learnt several particulars of the isolated lord. He had
+portioned eight young girls when he was last upon the island, and even
+danced with them at the nuptial feast. He gave a cow to one man,
+horses to others, and cotton and silk to the girls who live by weaving
+these articles. He also bought a new boat for a fisherman who had lost
+his own in a gale, and he often gave Greek Testaments to the poor
+children. In short, he appeared to us, from all we collected, to have
+been a very eccentric and benevolent character. One circumstance we
+learnt, which our old friend at the cottage thought proper not to
+disclose. He had a most beautiful daughter, with whom the lord was
+often seen walking on the sea-shore, and he had bought her a
+piano-forte, and taught her himself the use of it.
+
+Such was the information with which we departed from the peaceful isle
+of Mitylene; our imaginations all on the rack, guessing who this
+rambler in Greece could be. He had money it was evident: he had
+philanthropy of disposition, and all those eccentricities which mark
+peculiar genius. Arrived at Palermo, all our doubts were dispelled.
+Falling in company with Mr. FOSTER, the architect, a pupil of WYATT'S,
+who had been travelling in Egypt and Greece, "The individual," said
+he, "about whom you are so anxious, is Lord Byron; I met him in my
+travels on the island of Tenedos, and I also visited him at Mitylene."
+We had never then heard of his lordship's fame, as we had been some
+years from home; but "Childe Harolde" being put into our hands we
+recognized the recluse of Calcla in every page. Deeply did we regret
+not having been more curious in our researches at the cottage, but we
+consoled ourselves with the idea of returning to Mitylene on some
+future day; but to me that day will never return. I make this
+statement, believing it not quite uninteresting, and in justice to his
+lordship's good name, which has been grossly slandered. He has been
+described as of an unfeeling disposition, averse to associating with
+human nature, or contributing in any way to sooth its sorrows, or add
+to its pleasures. The fact is directly the reverse, as may be plainly
+gathered from these little anecdotes. All the finer feelings of the
+heart, so elegantly depicted in his lordship's poems, seem to have
+their seat in his bosom. Tenderness, sympathy, and charity appear to
+guide all his actions: and his courting the repose of solitude is an
+additional reason for marking him as a being on whose heart Religion
+hath set her seal, and over whose head Benevolence hath thrown her
+mantle. No man can read the preceding pleasing "traits" without
+feeling proud of him as a countryman. With respect to his loves or
+pleasures, I do not assume a right to give an opinion. Reports are
+ever to be received with caution, particularly when directed against
+man's moral integrity; and he who dares justify himself before that
+awful tribunal where all must appear, alone may censure the errors of
+a fellow-mortal. Lord Byron's character is worthy of his genius. To do
+good in secret, and shun the world's applause, is the surest testimony
+of a virtuous heart and self-approving conscience.
+
+
+                               THE END
+                        ____________________
+
+             Gillet, Printer, Crown-court, Fleet-street.
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+                                 THE
+
+                               VAMPYRE;
+                                   
+                               A Tale.
+
+			   By John Polidori
+
+
+
+
+
+                         EXTRACT OF A LETTER
+
+                             FROM GENEVA.
+                            ______________
+
+"I breathe freely in the neighbourhood of this lake; the ground upon
+which I tread has been subdued from the earliest ages; the principal
+objects which immediately strike my eye, bring to my recollection
+scenes, in which man acted the hero and was the chief object of
+interest. Not to look back to earlier times of battles and sieges,
+here is the bust of Rousseau--here is a house with an inscription
+denoting that the Genevan philosopher first drew breath under its
+roof. A little out of the town is Ferney, the residence of Voltaire;
+where that wonderful, though certainly in many respects contemptible,
+character, received, like the hermits of old, the visits of pilgrims,
+not only from his own nation, but from the farthest boundaries of
+Europe. Here too is Bonnet's abode, and, a few steps beyond, the house
+of that astonishing woman Madame de Stael: perhaps the first of her
+sex, who has really proved its often claimed equality with, the nobler
+man. We have before had women who have written interesting-novels and
+poems, in which their tact at observing drawing-room characters has
+availed them; but never since the days of Heloise have those faculties
+which arc peculiar to man, been developed as the possible inheritance
+of woman. Though even here, as in the case of Heloise, our sex have
+not been backward in alledging the existence of an Abeilard in the
+person of M. Schlegel as the inspirer of her works. But to proceed:
+upon the same side of the lake, Gibbon, Bonnivard, Bradshaw, and
+others mark, as it were, the stages for our progress; whilst upon the
+other side there is one house, built by Diodati, the friend of Milton,
+which has contained within its walls, for several months, that poet
+whom we have so often read together, and who--if human passions remain
+the same, and human feelings, like. chords, on being swept by nature's
+impulses shall vibrate as before---will be placed by posterity in the
+first rank of our English Poets. You must have heard, or the Third
+Canto of Childe Harold will have informed you, that Lord Byron resided
+many months in this neighbourhood. I went with some friends a few days
+ago, after having seen Ferney, to view this mansion. I trod the floors
+with the same feelings of awe and respect as we did, together, those
+of Shakespeare's dwelling at Stratford. I sat down in a chair of the
+saloon, and satisfied myself that I was resting on what he had made
+his constant scat. I found a servant there who had lived with him;
+she, however, gave me but little information. She pointed out his
+bed-chamber upon the same level as the saloon and dining-room, and
+informed me that he retired to rest at three, got up at two, and
+employed himself a long time over his toilette; that he never went to
+sleep without a pair of pistols and a dagger by his side, and that he
+never eat animal food. He apparently spent some part of every day upon
+the lake in an English boat. There is a balcony from the saloon which
+looks upon the lake and the mountain Jura; and I imagine, that it must
+have been hence, he contemplated the storm BO magnificently described
+in the Third Canto; for you have from here a most extensive view of
+all the points he has therein depicted. I can fancy him like the
+scathed pine, whilst all around was sunk to repose, still waking to
+observe, what gave but a weak image of the storms which had desolated
+his own breast.
+
+The sky is changed!--and such a change; Oh, night!
+And storm and darkness, ye are wond'rous strong,
+Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light
+Of a dark eye in woman! Far along
+>From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,
+Leaps the lire thunder! Not from one lone cloud,
+But every mountain now hath found a tongue,
+And Jura answers thro' her misty shroud,
+Back to the joyous Alps who call to her aloud!
+
+And this is in the night:--Most glorious night!
+Thou wer't not sent for slumber! let me be
+A sharer in thy far and fierce delight,--
+A portion of the tempest and of me!
+How the lit lake shines a phosphoric sea,
+And the big rain comet dancing to the earth!
+And now again 'tis black,--and now the glee
+Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain mirth,
+As if they did rejoice o'er a young; earthquake's birth,
+
+Now where the swift Rhine cleaves his way between
+Heights which appear, as lovers who have parted
+In haste, whose mining depths so intervene,
+That they can meet no more, tho' broken hearted;
+Tho' in their souls which thus each other thwarted,
+Love was the very root of the fond rage
+Which blighted their life's bloom, and then departed--
+Itself expired, but leaving; them an age
+Of years all winter--war within themselves to wage.
+
+I went clown to the little port, if I may use the expression, wherein
+his vessel used to lay, and conversed with the cottager, who had the
+care of it. You may smile, but I have my pleasure in thus helping my
+personification of the individual I admire, by attaining to the
+knowledge of those circumstances which were daily around him. I have
+made numerous enquiries in the town concerning him, but can learn
+nothing. He only went into society there once, when M. Pictet took him
+to the house of a lady to spend the evening. They say he is a very
+singular man, and seem to think him very uncivil. Amongst other things
+they relate, that having invited M. Pictet and Bonstetten to dinner,
+he went on the lake to Chillon, leaving a gentleman who travelled with
+him to receive them and make his apologies. Another evening, being
+invited to the house of Lady D------ H------, he promised to attend,
+but upon approaching the windows of her ladyship's villa, and
+perceiving the room to be full of company, he set down his friend,
+desiring him to plead his excuse, and immediately returned home. This
+will serve as a contradiction to the report which yon tell me is
+current in England, of his having been avoided by his countrymen on
+the continent. The case happens to be directly the reverse, as he has
+been generally sought by them, though on most occasions, apparently
+without success. It is said, indeed, that upon paying his first visit
+at Coppet, following the servant who had announced his name, he was
+surprised to meet a lady carried oat fainting; but before he had been
+seated many minutes, the same lady, who had been so affected at the
+sound of his name, returned and conversed with him a considerable
+time--- such is female curiosity and affectation! He visited Coppet
+frequently, and of course associated there with several of his
+countrymen, who evinced no reluctance to moot him whom his enemies
+alone would represent as au outcast.
+
+Though I have been so unsuccessful in this town, 1 have been more
+fortunate in my enquiries elsewhere. There is a society three or four
+miles from Geneva, the centre of which is the Countess of Breuss, a
+Russian lady, well acquainted with the agrémens de la Société, and who
+has collected them round herself at her mansion. It was chiefly here,
+I find, that the gentleman who travelled with Lord Byron, as
+physician, sought for society. He used almost every day to cross the
+lake by himself, in one of their flat-bottomed boats, and return after
+passing the evening with his friends, about eleven or twelve at night,
+often whilst the storms were raging in the circling summits of the
+mountains around. As he became intimate, from long acquaintance, with
+several of the families in this neighbourhood, I have gathered from
+their accounts some excellent traits of his lordship's character,
+which I will relate to you at some future opportunity. I must,
+however, free him from one imputation attached to him--- of having in
+his house two sisters as the partakers of his revels. This is, like
+many other charges which have been brought against his lordship,
+entirely destitute of truth. His only companion was the physician I
+have already mentioned. The report originated from the following
+circumstance: Mr. Percy Bysshe Shelly, a gentleman well known for
+extravagance of doctrine, and for his daring, in their profession,
+even to sign himself with the title of ATHeo*s in the Album at
+Chamouny, having taken a house below, in which he resided with Miss M.
+W. Godwin and Miss Clermont, (the daughters of the celebrated Mr.
+Godwin) they were frequently visitors at Diodati, and were often seen
+upon the lake with his Lordship, which gave rise to the report, the
+truth of which is here positively denied.
+
+Among other things which the lady, from whom I procured these
+anecdotes, related to me, she mentioned tho outline of a ghost story
+by Lord Byron. It appears that one evening Lord B., Mr. P. B. Shelly,
+the two ladies and the gentleman before alluded to, after having
+perused a German work, which was entitled Phantasmagoriana, began
+relating ghost stories; when his lordship having recited the beginning
+of Christabel, then unpublished, the whole took so strong a hold of
+Mr. Shelly's mind, that he suddenly started up and ran out of the
+room. The physician and Lord Byron followed, and discovered him
+leaning against a mantle-piece, with cold drops of perspiration
+trickling down his face. After having given him something to refresh
+him, upon enquiring into the cause of his alarm, they found that his
+wild imagination having pictured to him the bosom of one of the ladies
+with eyes (which was reported of a lady in the neighbourhood where he
+lived) he was obliged to leave the room in order to destroy the
+impression. It was afterwards proposed, in the course of conversation,
+that each of the company present should write a tale depending upon
+some supernatural agency, which was undertaken by Lord B., the
+physician, and Miss M. W. Godwin.[1]* My friend, the lady above
+referred to, had in her possession the outline of each of these
+stories; I obtained them as a great favour, and herewith Forward them
+to you, as I was assured you would feel as much curiosity as myself,
+to peruse the ebauches of so great a genius, and those immediately
+under his influence. "
+
+* Since published under the title of "Frankenstein; or, The Modern
+Prometheus."
+
+
+                             THE VAMPYRE.
+  _________________________________________________________________
+
+                            INTRODUCTION.
+                              __________
+
+THE superstition upon which this tale is founded is very general in
+the East. Among the Arabians it appears to be common: it did not,
+however, extend itself to the Greeks until after the establishment of
+Christianity; and it has only assumed its present form since the
+division of the Latin and Greek churches; at which time, the idea
+becoming prevalent, that a Latin body could not corrupt if buried in
+their territory, it gradually increased, and formed the subject of
+many wonderful stories, still extant, of the dead rising from their
+graves, and feeding upon the blood of the young and beautiful. In the
+West it spread, with some slight variation, all over Hungary, Poland,
+Austria, and Lorraine, where the belief existed, that vampyres nightly
+imbibed a certain portion of the blood of their victims, who became
+emaciated, lost their strength, and speedily died of consumptions;
+whilst these human blood-suckers fattened --- and their veins became
+distended to such a state of repletion, as to cause the blood to flow
+from all the passages of their bodies, and even from the very pores of
+their skins.
+
+In the London Journal, of March, 1732, is a curious, and, of course,
+credible account of a particular case of vampyrism, which is stated to
+have occurred at Madreyga, in Hungary. It appears, that upon an
+examination of the commander-in-chief and magistrates of the place,
+they positively and unanimously affirmed, that, about five years
+before, a certain Heyduke, named Arnold Paul, had been heard to say,
+that, at Cassovia, on the frontiers of the Turkish Servia, he had been
+tormented by a vampyre, but had found a way to rid himself of the
+evil, by eating some of the earth out of the vampyre's grave, and
+rubbing himself with his blood. This precaution, however, did not
+prevent him from becoming a vampyre[2]* himself; for, about twenty or
+thirty days after his death and burial, many persons complained of
+having been tormented by him, and a deposition was made, that four
+persons had been deprived of life by his attacks. To prevent further
+mischief, the inhabitants having consulted their Hadagni,[3]/- took up
+tho body, and found it (as is supposed to be usual in cases of
+vampyrism) fresh, and entirely free from corruption, and emitting at
+the mouth, nose, and ears, pure and florid blood. Proof having been
+thus obtained, they resorted to the accustomed remedy. A stake was
+driven entirely through the heart and body of Arnold Paul, at which he
+is reported to have cried out as dreadfully as if he had been alive.
+This done, they cut off his head, burned his body, and threw the ashes
+into his grave. The same measures were adopted with the corses of
+those persons who had previously died from vampyrism, lest they
+should, in their turn, become agents upon others who survived them.
+
+* The universal belief is, that a person tucked by a vampyre becomes a
+vampyre himself, and sucks in his turn.
+
+/- Chief bailiff.
+
+This monstrous rodomontade is here related, because it seems better
+adapted to illustrate the subject of the present observations than any
+other instance which could be adduced. In many parts of Greece it is
+considered as a sort of punishment after death, for some heinous crime
+committed whilst in existence, that the deceased is not only doomed to
+vampyrise, but compelled to confine his infernal visitations solely to
+those beings he loved most while upon earththose to whom he was bound
+by ties of kindred and affection. ---A supposition alluded to in the
+"Giaour."
+
+But first on earth, as Vampyre sent,
+Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent;
+Then ghastly haunt the native place,
+And suck the blood of all thy race;
+There from thy daughter, sister, wife,
+At midnight drain the stream of life;
+Yet loathe the banquet which perforce
+Must feed thy livid living corse,
+Thy victims, ere they yet expire,
+Shall know the demon for their sire;
+As cursing thee, thou cursing them,
+Thy flowers are withered on the stem.
+But one that for thy crime must fall,
+The youngest, best beloved of all,
+Shall bless thee with a father's name--
+That word shall wrap thy heart in flame!
+Yet thou must end thy task and mark
+Her cheek's last tinge--her eye's last spark,
+And the last glassy glance must view
+Which freezes o'er its lifeless blue;
+Then with unhallowed hand shall tear
+The tresses of her yellow hair,
+Of which, in life a lock when shorn
+Affection's fondest pledge was worn--
+But now is borne away by thee
+Memorial of thine agony!
+Yet with thine own best blood shall drip;
+Thy gnashing tooth, and haggard lip;
+Then stalking to thy sullen grave,
+Go--and with Gouls and Afrits rave,
+Till these in horror shrink away
+>From spectre more accursed than they.
+
+Mr. Southey has also introduced in his wild but beautiful poem of "
+Thalaba, " the vampyre corse of the Arabian maid Oneiza, who is
+represented as having returned from the grave for the purpose of
+tormenting him she best loved whilst in existence. But this cannot be
+supposed to have resulted from the sinfulness of her life, she being
+pourtrayed throughout the whole of the tale as a complete type of
+purity and innocence. The veracious Tournefort gives a long account in
+his travels of several astonishing cases of vampyrism, to which he
+pretends to have been an eyewitness; and Calmet, in his great work
+upon this subject, besides a variety of anecdotes, and traditionary
+narratives illustrative of its effects, has put forth some learned
+dissertations, tending to prove it to be a classical, as well as
+barbarian error.
+
+Many curious and interesting notices on this singularly horrible
+superstition might be added; though the present may suffice for the
+limits of a note, necessarily devoted to explanation, and which may
+now be concluded by merely remarking, that though the term Vampyre is
+the one in most general acceptation, there are several others
+synonimous with it, made use of in various parts of the world: as
+Vroucolocha, Vardoulacha, Goul, Broucoloka, &c.
+  _________________________________________________________________
+
+                             THE VAMPYRE.
+                              __________
+
+IT happened that in the midst of the dissipations attendant upon a
+London winter, there appeared at the various parties of the leaders of
+the ton a nobleman, more remarkable for his singularities, than his
+rank. He gazed upon the mirth around him, as if he could not
+participate therein. Apparently, the light laughter of the fair only
+attracted his attention, that he might by a look quell it, and throw
+fear into those breasts where thoughtlessness reigned. Those who felt
+this sensation of awe, could not explain whence it arose: some
+attributed it to the dead grey eye, which, fixing upon the object's
+face, did not seem to penetrate, and at one glance to pierce through
+to the inward workings of the heart; but fell upon the cheek with a
+leaden ray that weighed upon the skin it could not pass. His
+peculiarities caused him to be invited to every house; all wished to
+see him, and those who had been accustomed to violent excitement, and
+now felt the weight of ennui, were pleased at having something in
+their presence capable of engaging their attention. In spite of the
+deadly hue of his face, which never gained a warmer tint, either from
+the blush of modesty, or from the strong emotion of passion, though
+its form and outline were beautiful, many of the female hunters after
+notoriety attempted to win his attentions, and gain, at least, some
+marks of what they might term affection: Lady Mercer, who had been the
+mockery of every monster shewn in drawing-rooms since her marriage,
+threw herself in his way, and did all but put on the dress of a
+mountebank, to attract his notice:--- though in vain:--- when she
+stood before him, though his eyes were apparently fixed upon her's,
+still it seemed as if they were unperceived;---even her unappalled
+impudence was baffled, and she left, the field. But though the common
+adultress could not influence even the guidance of his eyes, it was
+not that the female sex was indifferent to him: yet such was the
+apparent caution with which he spoke to the virtuous wife and innocent
+daughter, that few knew he ever addressed himself to females. He had,
+however, the reputation of a winning tongue; and whether it was that
+it even overcame the dread of his singular character, or that they
+were moved by his apparent hatred of vice, he was as often among those
+females who form the boast of their sex from their domestic virtues,
+as among those who sully it by their vices.
+
+About the same time, there came to London a young gentleman of the
+name of Aubrey: he was an orphan left with an only sister in the
+possession of great wealth, by parent» who died while he was yet in
+childhood. Left also to himself by guardians, who thought it their
+duty merely to take care of his fortune, while they relinquished the
+more important charge of his mind to the care of mercenary subalterns,
+he cultivated more his imagination than his judgment. He had, hence,
+that high romantic feeling of honour and candour, which daily ruins so
+many milliners' apprentices. He believed all to sympathise with
+virtue, and thought that vice was thrown in by Providence merely for
+the picturesque effect of the scene, as we see in romances: he thought
+that the misery of a cottage merely consisted in the vesting of
+clothes, which were as warm, but which were better adapted to the
+painter's eye by their irregular folds and various coloured patches.
+Me thought, in fine, that the dreams of poets were the realities of
+life. He was handsome, frank, and rich: for these reasons, upon his
+entering into the gay circles, many mothers surrounded him, striving
+which should describe with least truth their languishing or romping
+favourites: the daughters at the same time, by their brightening
+countenances when he approached, and by their sparkling eyes, when he
+opened his lips, soon led him into false notions of his talents and
+his merit. Attached as lie was to the romance of his solitary hours,
+he was startled at finding, that, except in the tallow and wax candles
+that flickered, not from the presence of a ghost, but from want of
+snuffing, there was no foundation in real life for any of that
+congeries of pleasing pictures and descriptions contained in those
+volumes, from which he had formed his study. Finding, however, some
+compensation in his gratified vanity, he was about to relinquish his
+dreams, when the extraordinary being we have above described, crossed
+him in his career.
+
+He watched him; and the very impossibility of forming an idea of the
+character of a man entirely absorbed in himself, who gave few other
+signs of his observation of external objects, than the tacit assent to
+their existence, implied by the avoidance of their contact: allowing
+his imagination to picture every thing that flattered its propensity
+to extravagant ideas, he soon formed this object into the hero of a
+romance, and determined to observe the offspring of his fancy, rather
+than the person before him. He became acquainted with him, paid him
+attentions, and so far advanced upon his notice, that his presence was
+always recognised. He gradually learnt that Lord Ruthven's affairs
+were embarrassed, and soon found, from the notes of preparation in --
+Street, that he was about to travel. Desirous of gaining some
+information respecting this singular character, who, till now, had
+only whetted his curiosity, he hinted to his guardians, that it was
+time for him to perform the tour, which for many generations has been
+thought necessary to enable the young to take some rapid steps in the
+career of vice towards putting themselves upon an equality with the
+aged, and not allowing them to appear as if fallen from the skies,
+whenever scandalous intrigues are mentioned as the subjects of
+pleasantry or of praise, according to the degree of skill shewn in
+carrying them on. They consented: and Aubrey immediately mentioning
+his intentions to Lord Ruthven, was surprised to receive from him a
+proposal to join him. Flattered by such a mark of esteem from him,
+who, apparently, had nothing in common with other men, he gladly
+accepted it, and in a few days they hail passed the circling waters.
+
+Hitherto, Aubrey had had no opportunity of studying Lord Ruthven's
+character, and now he found, that, though many more of his actions
+were exposed to his view, the results offered different conclusions
+from (lie apparent motives to his conduct. His companion was profuse
+in his liberality; ---the idle, the vagabond, and the beggar, received
+from his hand more than enough to relieve their immediate wants. But
+Aubrey could not avoid remarking, that it was not upon the virtuous,
+reduced to indigence by the misfortunes attendant even upon virtue,
+that he bestowed his alms; ---these were sent from the door with
+hardly suppressed sneers; but when the profligate came to ask
+something, not to relieve his wants, but to allow him to wallow in his
+lust, or to sink him still deeper in his iniquity, he was sent away
+with rich charity. This was, however, attributed by him to the greater
+importunity of the vicious, which generally prevails over the retiring
+bashfulness of the virtuous indigent. There was one circumstance about
+the charity of his Lordship, which was still more impressed upon his
+mind: all those upon whom it was bestowed, inevitably found that there
+was a curse upon it, for they were all either led to the scaffold, or
+sunk to the lowest and the most abject misery. At Brussels and other
+towns through which they passed, Aubrey was surprized at the apparent
+eagerness with which his companion sought for the centres of all
+fashionable vice; there he entered into all the spirit of the faro
+table: he betted, and always gambled with success, except where the
+known sharper was his antagonist, and then he lost even more than he
+gained; but it was always with the same unchanging face, with which he
+generally watched the society around: it was not, however, so when he
+encountered the rash youthful novice, or the luckless father of a
+numerous family; then his very wish seemed fortune's law---this
+apparent abstractedness of mind was laid aside, and his eyes sparkled
+with more fire than that of the cat whilst dallying with lire
+half-dead mouse. In every town, he left the formerly affluent youth,
+torn from the circle he adorned, cursing, in the solitude of a
+dungeon, the fate that had drawn him within the reach of this fiend;
+whilst many a father sat frantic, amidst the speaking looks of mute
+hungry children, without a single farthing of his late immense wealth,
+wherewith to buy even sufficient to satisfy their present craving. Yet
+he took no money from tho gambling table; but immediately lost, to the
+ruiner of many, the last gilder he had just snatched from the
+convulsive grasp of the innocent: this might but be the result of a
+certain degree of knowledge, which was not, however, capable of
+combating the cunning of the more experienced. Aubrey often wished to
+represent this to his friend, and beg him to resign that charity and
+pleasure which proved the ruin of all, and did not tend to his own
+profit; ---but he delayed it---for each day ho hoped his friend would
+give him some opportunity of speaking frankly and openly to him;
+however, this never occurred. Lord Ruthven in his carriage, and amidst
+the various wild and rich scenes of nature, was always the same: his
+eye spoke less than his lip; and though Aubrey was near the object of
+his curiosity, he obtained no greater gratification from it than the
+constant excitement of vainly wishing to break that mystery, which to
+his exalted imagination began to assume the appearance of something
+supernatural.
+
+They soon arrived at Rome, and Aubrey for a time lost sight of his
+companion; he left him in daily attendance upon the morning circle of
+an Italian countess, whilst he went in search of the memorials of
+another almost deserted city. Whilst he was thus engaged, letters
+arrived from England, which he opened with eager impatience; the first
+was from his sister, breathing nothing but affection; the others were
+from his guardians, the latter astonished him; if it had before
+entered into his imagination that there was an evil power resident in
+his companion, these seemed to give him sufficient reason for the
+belief. His guardians insisted upon his immediately leaving his
+friend, and urged, that his character was dreadfully vicious, for that
+the possession of irresistible powers of seduction, rendered his
+licentious habits more dangerous to society. It had been discovered,
+that his contempt for the adultress had not originated in hatred of
+her character; but that he had required, to enhance his gratification,
+that his victim, the partner of his guilt, should be hurled from the
+pinnacle of unsullied virtue, down to the lowest abyss of infamy and
+degradation: in fine, that all those females whom he had sought,
+apparently on account of their virtue, had, since his departure,
+thrown even the mask aside, and had not scrupled to expose the whole
+deformity of their vices to the public gaze.
+
+Aubrey determined upon leaving one, whose character had not yet shown
+a single bright point on which to rest the eye. He resolved to invent
+some plausible pretext for abandoning him altogether, purposing, in
+the mean while, to watch him more closely, and to let no slight
+circumstances pass by unnoticed. He entered into the same circle, and
+soon perceived, that his Lordship was endeavouring to work upon the
+inexperience of the daughter of the lady whose house he chiefly
+frequented. In Italy, it is seldom that an unmarried female is met
+with in society; he was therefore obliged to carry on his plans in
+secret; but Aubrey's eye followed him in all his windings, and soon
+discovered that an assignation had been appointed, which would most
+likely end in the ruin of an innocent, though thoughtless girl. Losing
+no time, he entered the apartment of Lord Ruthven, and abruptly asked
+him his intentions with respect to the lady, informing him at the same
+time that he was aware of his being about to meet her that very night.
+Lord Ruthven answered, that his intentions were such as he supposed
+all would have upon such an occasion; and upon being pressed whether
+he intended to marry her, merely laughed. Aubrey retired; and,
+immediately writing a note, to say, that from that moment he must
+decline accompanying his Lordship in the remainder of their proposed
+tour, ho ordered his servant to seek other apartments, and calling
+upon tho mother of the lady, informed her of all he knew, not only
+with regard to her daughter, but also concerning the character of his
+Lordship. The assignation was prevented. Lord Ruthven next day merely
+sent his servant to notify his complete assent to a separation; but
+did not hint any suspicion of his plans having been foiled by Aubrey's
+interposition.
+
+Having left Rome, Aubrey directed his steps towards Greece, and
+crossing the Peninsula, soon found himself at Athens. He then fixed
+his residence in the house of a Greek; and soon occupied himself in
+tracing the faded records of ancient glory upon monuments that
+apparently, ashamed of chronicling the deeds of freemen only before
+slaves, had hidden themselves beneath the sheltering soil or many
+coloured lichen. Under the same roof as himself, existed a being, so
+beautiful and delicate, that she might have formed the model for a
+painter, wishing; to pourtray oil canvass the promised hope of the
+faithful in Mahomet's paradise, save that her eyes spoke too much mind
+for any one to think she could belong to those who had no souls. As
+she danced upon the plain, or tripped along the mountain's side, one
+would have thought the gazelle a poor type of her beauties; for who
+would have exchanged her eye, apparently the eye of animated nature,
+for that sleepy luxurious look of the animal suited but to the taste
+of an epicure. The light step of Ianthe often accompanied Aubrey in
+his search after antiquities, and often would the unconscious girl,
+engaged in the pursuit of a Kashmere butterfly, show the whole beauty
+of her form, floating as it were upon the wind, to the eager gaze of
+him, who forgot the letters he had just decyphered upon an almost
+effaced tablet, in tho contemplation of her sylph-like figure. Often
+would her tresses falling, as she flitted around, exhibit in the sun's
+ray such delicately brilliant and swiftly fading hues, its might well
+excuse the forgetfulness of the antiquary, who let escape from his
+mind the very object he had before thought of vital importance to the
+proper interpretation of a passage in Pausanias. But why attempt to
+describe charms which all feel, but none can appreciate?---It was
+innocence, youth, and beauty, unaffected by crowded drawing-rooms and
+stifling- balls. Whilst he drew those remains of which lie wished to
+preserve a memorial for his future hours, she would stand by, and
+watch the magic effects of his pencil, in tracing the scenes of her
+native place; she would then describe to him the circling dance upon
+the open plain, would paint, to him in all the glowing colours of
+youthful memory, the marriage pomp she remembered viewing in her
+infancy; and then, turning to subjects that had evidently made a
+greater impression upon her mind, would tell him all the supernatural
+tales of her nurse. Her earnestness and apparent belief of what she
+narrated, excited the interest even of Aubrey; and often as she told
+him the tale of the living vampyre, who had passed years amidst his
+friends, and dearest ties, forced every year, by feeding upon the life
+of a lovely female to prolong his existence for the ensuing months,
+his blood would run cold, whilst he attempted to laugh her out of such
+idle and horrible fantasies; > but lathe cited to him the names of old
+men, who had at last detected one living among themselves, after
+several of their near relatives and children had been found marked
+with the stamp of the fiend's appetite,; and when she found him so
+incredulous, she begged of him to believe her, for it had been,
+remarked, that those who had dared to question their existence, always
+had some proof given, which obliged them, with grief and
+heartbreaking, to confess it was true. She detailed to him the
+traditional appearance of these monsters, and his horror was
+increased, by hearing a pretty accurate description of Lord Ruthven;
+he, however, still persisted in persuading her, that there could be no
+truth in her fears, though at the same time he wondered at the many
+coincidences which had all tended to excite a belief in the
+supernatural power of Lord Ruthven.
+
+Aubrey began to attach himself more and more to Ianthe; her innocence,
+so contrasted with all the affected virtues of the women among whom he
+had sought for his vision of romance, won his heart; and while he
+ridiculed the idea of a young man of English habits, marrying an
+uneducated Greek girl, still he found himself more and more attached
+to the almost fairy form before him. He would tear himself at times
+from her, and, forming a plan for some antiquarian research, he would
+depart, determined not to return until his object was attained; but he
+always found it impossible to fix his attention upon the ruins around
+him, whilst in his mind he retained an image that seemed alone the
+rightful possessor of his thoughts. Ianthe was unconscious of his
+love, and was ever the same frank infantile being he had find: known.
+She always seemed to part from him with reluctance; but it was because
+she had no longer any one with whom she could visit her favourite
+haunts, whilst her guardian was occupied in sketching or uncovering
+some fragment which had yet escaped the destructive hand of time. She
+had appealed to her parents on the subject of Vampyres, and they both,
+with several present, affirmed their existence, pale with horror at
+the very name. Soon after, Aubrey determined to proceed upon one of
+his excursions, which was to detain him for a few hours; when they
+heard the name of the place, they all at once begged of him not to
+return at night, as he must necessarily pass through a wood, where no
+Greek would ever remain, after the day had closed, upon any
+consideration. They described it as the resort of the vampyres in
+their nocturnal orgies, and denounced the most heavy evils as
+impending upon him who dared to cross their path. Aubrey made light of
+their representations, and tried to laugh them out of the idea; but
+when he saw them shudder at his daring thus to mock a superior,
+infernal power, the very name of which apparently made their blood
+freeze, he was silent.
+
+Next morning Aubrey set off upon his excursion unattended; he was
+surprised to observe the melancholy face of his host, and was
+concerned to find that his words, mocking the belief of those horrible
+fiends, had inspired them with such terror. When he was about to
+depart, Ianthe came to the side of his horse, and earnestly begged of
+him to return, ore night allowed the power of these beings to be put
+in action;---he promised. He was, however, so occupied in his
+research, that lie did not perceive that day-light would soon end, and
+that in the horizon there was one of those specks which, in the warmer
+climates, so rapidly gather into a tremendous mass, and pour all their
+rage upon the devoted country. ---He at last, however, mounted his
+horse, determined to make up by speed for his delay: but it was too
+late. Twilight, in these southern climates, is almost unknown;
+immediately the sun sets, night begins: and ere he had advanced far,
+the power of the storm was above---its echoing thunders had scarcely
+an interval of rest---its thick heavy rain forced its way through the
+canopying foliage, whilst the blue forked lightning seemed to fall and
+radiate at his very feet. Suddenly his horse took fright, and he was
+carried with dreadful rapidity through the entangled forest. The
+animal at last, through fatigue, stopped, and he found, by the glare
+of lightning, that he was in the neighbourhood of a hovel that hardly
+lifted itself up from the masses of dead leaves and brushwood which
+surrounded it. Dismounting, he approached, hoping to find some one to
+guide him to the town, or at least trusting to obtain shelter from the
+pelting of the storm. As he approached, the thunders, for a moment
+silent, allowed him to hear the dreadful shrieks of a woman mingling
+with the stifled, exultant mockery of a laugh, continued in one almost
+unbroken sound;---he was startled: but, roused by the thunder which
+again rolled over his head, he, with a sudden effort, forced open the
+door of the hut. He found himself in utter darkness: the sound,
+however, guided him. He was apparently unperceived; for, though he
+called, still the sounds continued, and no notice was taken of him. He
+found himself in contact with some one, whom he immediately seized;
+when a voice cried, "Again baffled!" to which a loud laugh succeeded;
+and he felt himself grappled by one whose strength seemed superhuman:
+determined to sell his life as dearly as he could, he struggled; but
+it was in vain: he was lifted from his feet and hurled with enormous
+force against the ground: ---his enemy threw himself upon him, and
+kneeling upon his breast, had placed his hands upon his throat ---
+when the glare of many torches penetrating through the hole that gave
+light in the day, disturbed him;---he instantly rose, and, leaving his
+prey, rushed through the door, and in a moment the crashing of the
+brandies, as he broke through the wood, was no longer heard. The storm
+was now still; and Aubrey, incapable of moving, was soon heard by
+those without. They entered; the light of their torches fell upon the
+mud walls, and the thatch loaded on every individual straw with heavy
+flakes of soot. At the desire of Aubrey they searched for her who had
+attracted him by her cries; he was again left in darkness; but what
+was his horror, when the light of the torches once more burs; upon
+him, to perceive the airy form of his fair conductress brought in a
+lifeless corse. He shut his eyes, hoping that it was but a vision
+arising from his disturbed imagination; but he again saw the same
+form, when he unclosed them, stretched by his side. There was no
+colour upon her cheek, not even upon her lip; yet there was a
+stillness about her face that seemed almost as attaching as the life
+that once dwelt there:--- upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon
+her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein:---to this
+the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, " A
+Vampyre! a Vampyre!" A litter was quickly formed, and Aubrey was laid
+by the side of her who had lately been to him the object of so many
+bright and fairy visions, now fallen with the flower of life that had
+died within her. He knew not what his thoughts were---his mind was
+benumbed and seemed to shun reflection, and take refuge in
+vacancy---he held almost unconsciously in his hand a naked dagger of a
+particular construction, which had been found in the hut. They were
+soon met by different parties who had been engaged in the search of
+her whom a mother had missed. Their lamentable cries, as they
+approached the city, forewarned the parents of some dreadful
+catastrophe. ---To describe their grief would be impossible; but when
+they ascertained the cause of their child's death, they looked at
+Aubrey, and pointed to the corse. They were inconsolable; both died
+broken-hearted.
+
+Aubrey being put to bed was seized with a most violent fever, and was
+often delirious; in these intervals he would call upon Lord Ruthven
+and upon Ianthe---by some unaccountable combination he seemed to beg
+of his former companion to spare the being he loved. At other times he
+would imprecate maledictions upon his head, and curse him as her
+destroyer. Lord Ruthven, chanced at this time to arrive at Athens,
+and, from whatever motive, upon hearing of the state of Aubrey,
+immediately placed himself in the same house, and became his constant
+attendant. When the latter recovered from his delirium, he was
+horrified and startled at the sight of him whose image he had now
+combined with that of a Vampyre; but Lord Ruthven, by his kind words,
+implying almost repentance for the fault that had caused their
+separation, and still more by the attention, anxiety, and care which
+he showed, soon reconciled him to his presence. His lordship seemed
+quite changed; he no longer appeared that apathetic being who had so
+astonished Aubrey; but as soon as his convalescence began to be rapid,
+he again gradually retired into the same state of mind, and Aubrey
+perceived no difference from the former man, except that at times he
+was surprised to meet his gaze fixed intently upon him, with a smile
+of malicious exultation playing upon his lips: he knew not why, but
+this smile haunted him. During the last stage of the invalid's
+recovery, Lord Ruthven was apparently engaged in watching the tideless
+waves raised by the cooling breeze, or in marking the progress of
+those orbs, circling, like our world, the moveless sun;---indeed, he
+appeared to wish to avoid the eyes of all.
+
+Aubrey's mind, by this shock, was much weakened, and that elasticity
+of spirit which had once so distinguished him now seemed to have fled
+for ever. He was now as much a lover of solitude and silence as Lord
+Ruthven; but much as he wished for solitude, his mind could not find
+it in the neighbourhood of Athens; if he sought it amidst the ruins he
+had formerly frequented, Ianthe's form stood by his side---if he
+sought it in the woods, her light step would appear wandering amidst
+the underwood, in quest of the modest violet; then suddenly turning
+round, would show, to his wild imagination, her pale face and wounded
+throat, with a meek smile upon her lips. He determined to fly scenes,
+every feature of which created such bitter associations in his mind.
+He proposed to Lord Ruthven, to whom he held himself bound by the
+tender care he-had taken of him during his illness, that they should
+visit those parts of Greece neither had yet seen. They travelled in
+every direction, and sought every spot to which a recollection could
+be attached: but though they thus hastened from place to place, yet
+they seemed not to heed what they gazed upon. They heard much of
+robbers, but they gradually began to slight these reports, which they
+imagined were only the invention of individuals, whose interest it was
+to excite the generosity of those whom they defended from pretended
+dangers. In consequence of thus neglecting the advice of the
+inhabitants, on one occasion they travelled with only a few guards,
+more to serve as guides than as a defence. Upon entering, however, a
+narrow defile, at the bottom of which was the bed of a torrent, with
+large masses of rock brought down from the neighbouring precipices,
+they had reason to repent their negligence; for scarcely were tho
+whole of the party engaged in the narrow pass, when they were startled
+by the whistling of bullets close to their heads, and by the echoed
+report of several guns. In an instant their guards had left them, and,
+placing themselves behind rocks, had begun to fire in the direction
+whence the report came. Lord Ruthven and Aubrey, imitating their
+example, retired for a moment behind the sheltering turn of the
+defile: but ashamed of being thus detained by a foe, who with
+insulting shouts bade them advance, and being exposed to unresisting
+slaughter, if any of the robbers should climb above and take them in
+the rear, they determined at once to rush forward in search of the
+enemy. Hardly had they lost the shelter of the rock, when Lord Ruthven
+received a shot in the shoulder, which brought him to the ground.
+Aubrey hastened to his assistance; and, no longer heeding the contest
+or his own peril, was soon surprised by seeing the robbers' faces
+around him---his guards having, upon Lord Ruthven's being wounded,
+immediately thrown up their arms and surrendered.
+
+By promises of great reward, Aubrey soon induced them to convey his
+wounded friend to a neighbouring cabin; and having agreed upon a
+ransom, he was no more disturbed by their presence---they being
+content merely to guard the entrance till their comrade should return
+with the promised sum, for which he had an order. Lord Ruthven's
+strength rapidly decreased; in two days mortification ensued, and
+death seemed advancing with hasty steps. His conduct and appearance
+had not changed; he seemed as unconscious of pain as he had been of
+the objects about him: but towards the close of the last evening, his
+mind became apparently uneasy, and his eye often fixed upon Aubrey,
+who was induced to offer his assistance with more than usual
+earnestness--"Assist me! you may save me---you may do more than
+that---I mean not my life, I heed the death of my existence as little
+as that of the passing day; but you may save my honour, your friend's
+honour."---"How? tell me how? I would do any thing," replied Aubrey.
+---"I need but little---my life ebbs apace---I cannot explain the
+whole---but if you would conceal all you know of me, my honour were
+free from stain in the world's mouth---and if my death were unknown
+for some time in England---I---I---but life."---" It shall not be
+known."---"Swear !" cried the dying man, raising himself with exultant
+violence, " Swear by all your soul reveres, by all your nature fears,
+swear that, for a year and a day you will not impart your knowledge of
+my crimes or death to any living being in any way, whatever may
+happen, or whatever you may see. "---His eyes seemed bursting from
+their sockets: " I swear !" said Aubrey; he sunk laughing upon his
+pillow, and breathed no more.
+
+Aubrey retired to rest, but did not sleep; the many circumstances
+attending his acquaintance with this man rose upon his mind, and he
+knew not why; when he remembered his oath a cold shivering came over
+him, as if from the presentiment of something horrible awaiting him.
+Rising early in the morning, he was about to enter the hovel in which
+he had left the corpse, when a robber met him, and informed him that
+it was no longer there, having been conveyed by himself and comrades,
+upon his retiring, to the pinnacle of a neighbouring mount, according
+to a promise they had given his lordship, that it should be exposed to
+the first cold ray of the moon that rose after his death. Aubrey
+astonished, and taking several of the men, determined to go and bury
+it upon the spot where it lay. But, when he had mounted to the summit
+he found no trace of either the corpse or the clothes, though the
+robbers swore they pointed out the identical rock: on which they had
+laid the body. For a time his mind was bewildered in conjectures, but
+he at last returned, convinced that they had buried the corpse for the
+sake of the clothes.
+
+Weary of a country in which he had met with such terrible misfortunes,
+and in which all apparently conspired to heighten that superstitious
+melancholy that had seized upon his mind, he resolved to leave it, and
+soon arrived at Smyrna. While waiting for a vessel to convey him to
+Otranto, or to Naples, he occupied himself in arranging those effects
+be had with him belonging to Lord Ruthven. Amongst other things there
+was a case containing several weapons of offence, more or less adapted
+to ensure the death of the victim. There were several daggers and
+ataghans. Whilst turning them over, and examining their curious forms,
+what was his surprise at finding a sheath apparently ornamented in the
+same style as the dagger discovered in the fatal hut---he
+shuddered---hastening to gain further proof, he found the weapon, and
+his horror may be imagined when he discovered that it fitted, though
+peculiarly shaped, the sheath he held in his hand. His eyes seemed to
+need no further certainty---they seemed gazing to be bound to the
+dagger; yet still he wished to disbelieve; but the particular form,
+the same varying tints upon the haft and sheath were alike in
+splendour on both, and left no room for doubt; there were also drops
+of blood on each.
+
+He left Smyrna, and on his way home, at Rome, his first inquiries were
+concerning the lady he had attempted to snatch from Lord Ruthven's
+seductive arts. Her parents were in distress, their fortune ruined,
+and she had not been heard of since the departure of his lordship.
+Aubrey's mind became almost broken under so many repeated horrors; he
+was afraid that this lady had fallen a victim to the destroyer of
+Ianthe. He became morose and silent; and his only occupation consisted
+in urging the speed of the postilions, as if he were going to save the
+life of some one he held dear. He arrived at Calais; a breeze, which
+seemed obedient to his will, soon wafted him to the English shores;
+and he hastened to the mansion of his fathers, and there, for a
+moment, appeared to lose, in the embraces and caresses of his sister,
+all memory of the past. If she before, by her infantine caresses, had
+gained his affection, now that the woman began to appear, she was
+still more attaching as a companion.
+
+Miss Aubrey had not that winning grace which gains the gaze and
+applause of the drawing-room assemblies. There was none of that light
+brilliancy which only exists in the heated atmosphere of a crowded
+apartment. Her blue eye was never lit up by the levity of the mind
+beneath. There was a melancholy charm about it which did not seem to
+arise from misfortune, but from some feeling within, that appeared to
+indicate a soul conscious of a brighter realm. Her step was not that
+light footing, which strays where'er a butterfly or a colour may
+attract---it was sedate and pensive. When alone, her face was never
+brightened by the smile of joy; but when her brother breathed to her
+his affection, and would in her presence forget those griefs she knew
+destroyed his rest, who would have exchanged her smile for that of the
+voluptuary? It seemed as if those eyes,---that face were then playing
+in the light of their own native sphere. She was yet only eighteen,
+and had not been presented to the world, it having been thought by her
+guardians more fit that her presentation should be delayed until her
+brother's return from the continent, when he might be her protector.
+It was now, therefore, resolved that the next drawing-room, which was
+fast approaching, should be the epoch of her entry into the "busy
+scene. " Aubrey would rather have remained in the mansion of his
+fathers, and fed upon the melancholy which overpowered him. He could
+not fed interest about the frivolities of fashionable strangers, when
+his mind had been so torn by the events he had witnessed; but he
+determined to sacrifice his own comfort to the protection of his
+sister. They soon arrived in town, and prepared for the next day,
+which had been announced as a drawing-room.
+
+The crowd was excessive---a drawing-room had not been held for a long
+time, and all who were anxious to bask in the smile of royalty,
+hastened thither. Aubrey was there with his sister. While he was
+standing in a corner by himself, heedless of all around him, engaged
+in the remembrance that the first time he had seen Lord Ruthven was in
+that very place---he felt himself suddenly seized by the arm, and a
+voice he recognized too well, sounded in his ear---" Remember your
+oath. " He had hardly courage to turn, fearful of seeing a spectre
+that would blast him, when he perceived, at a little distance, the
+same figure which had attracted his notice on this spot upon his first
+entry into society. He gazed till his limbs almost refusing to bear
+their weight, he was obliged to take the arm of a friend, and forcing
+a passage through the crowd, he threw himself into his carriage, and
+was driven home. He paced the room with hurried steps, and fixed his
+hands upon his head, as if he were afraid his thoughts were bursting
+from his brain. Lord Ruthven again before him---circumstances started
+up in dreadful array---the dagger---his oath.---He roused himself, he
+could not believe it possible---the dead rise again!---He thought his
+imagination had conjured up the image, his mind was resting upon. It
+was impossible that it could be real ---he determined, therefore, to
+go again into society; for though he attempted to ask concerning Lord
+Ruthven, the name hung upon his lips, and he could not succeed in
+gaining information. He went a few nights after with lib sister to the
+assembly of a near relation. Leaving her under the protection of a
+matron, ho retired into a recess, and there gave himself up to his own
+devouring thoughts. Perceiving, at last, that many were leaving, he
+roused himself, and entering another room, found his sister surrounded
+by several, apparently in earnest conversation; he attempted to pass
+and get near her, when one, whom he requested to move, turned round,
+and revealed to him those features he most abhorred. He sprang
+forward, seized his sister's arm, and, with hurried step, forced her
+towards the street: at the door he found himself impeded by the crowd
+of servants who were waiting for their lords; and while he was engaged
+in passing them, he again heard that voice whisper close to
+him--"Remember your oath!"--He did not dare to turn, but, hurrying his
+sister, soon reached home.
+
+Aubrey became almost distracted. If before his mind had been absorbed
+by one subject, how much more completely was it engrossed, now that
+the certainty of the monster's living again pressed upon his thoughts.
+His sister's attentions were now unheeded, and it was in vain that she
+intreated him to explain to her what had caused his abrupt conduct. He
+only uttered a few words, and those terrified her. The more he
+thought, the more he was bewildered. His oath startled him;--was he
+then to allow this monster to roam, bearing ruin upon his breath,
+amidst all he held dear, and not avert its progress? His very sister
+might have been touched by him. But even if he were to break his oath,
+and disclose his suspicions, who would believe him? He thought of
+employing his own hand to free the world from such a wretch; but
+death, he remembered, had been already mocked. For days he remained in
+this state; shut up in his room, he saw no one, and eat only when his
+sister came, who, with eyes streaming with tears, besought him, for
+her sake, to support nature. At last, no longer capable of bearing
+stillness and solitude, he left his house, roamed from street to
+street, anxious to fly that image which haunted him. His dress became
+neglected, and he wandered, as often exposed to the noon-day sun as to
+the midnight damps. He was no longer to be recognized; at first he
+returned with the evening to the house; but at last he laid him down
+to rest wherever fatigue overtook him. His sister, anxious for his
+safety, employed people to follow him; but they were soon distanced by
+him who fled from a pursuer swifter than any---from thought. His
+conduct, however, suddenly changed. Struck with the idea that he left
+by his absence the whole of his friends, with a fiend amongst them, of
+whose presence they were unconscious, he determined to enter again
+into society, and watch him closely, anxious to forewarn, in spite of
+his oath, all whom Lord Ruthven approached with intimacy. But when he
+entered into a room, his haggard and suspicious looks were so
+striking, his inward shudderings so visible, that his sister was at
+last obliged to beg of him to abstain from seeking, for her sake, a
+society which affected him so strongly. When, however, remonstrance
+proved unavailing, the guardians thought proper to interpose, and,
+fearing that his mind was becoming alienated, they thought it high
+time to resume again that trust which had been before imposed upon
+them by Aubrey's parents.
+
+Desirous of saving him from the injuries and sufferings he had daily
+encountered in his wanderings, and of preventing him from exposing to
+the general eye those marks of what they considered folly, they
+engaged a physician to reside in the house, and take constant care of
+him. He hardly appeared to notice it, so completely was his mind
+absorbed by one terrible subject. His incoherence became at last so
+great, that he was confined to his chamber. There he would often lie
+for days, incapable of being roused. He had become emaciated, his eyes
+had attained a glassy lustre;---the only sign of affection and
+recollection remaining displayed itself upon the entry of his sister;
+then he would sometimes start, and, seizing her hands, with looks that
+severely affliced her, he would desire her not to touch him. " Oh, do
+not touch him---if your love for me is aught, do not go near him!"
+When, however, she inquired to whom he referred, his only answer was,
+"True! true! and again he sank into a state, whence not even she could
+rouse him. This lasted many months: gradually, however, as the year
+was passing, his incoherences became less frequent, and his mind threw
+off a portion of its gloom, whilst his guardians observed, that
+several times in the day he would count upon his fingers a definite
+number, and then smile.
+
+The time had nearly elapsed, when, upon the last day of the year, one
+of his guardians entering his room, began to converse with his
+physician upon the melancholy circumstance of Aubrey's being in so
+awful a situation, when his sister was going next day to be married.
+Instantly Aubrey's attention was attracted; he asked anxiously to
+whom. Glad of this mark of returning intellect, of which they feared
+he had been deprived, they mentioned the name of the Earl of Marsden.
+Thinking this was a young Earl whom he had met with in society, Aubrey
+seemed pleased, and astonished them still more by his expressing his
+intention to be present tit the nuptials, and desiring to see his
+sister. They answered not, but in a few minutes his sister was with
+him. He was apparently again capable of being affected by the
+influence of her lovely smile; for he pressed her to his breast, and
+kissed her check, wet with tears, flowing at the thought of her
+brother's being once more alive to the feelings of affection. He began
+to speak with all his wonted warmth, and to congratulate her upon her
+marriage with a person so distinguished for rank and every
+accomplishment; when he suddenly perceived a locket upon her breast;
+opening it, what was his surprise at beholding the features of the
+monster who had so long influenced his life. He seized the portrait in
+a paroxysm of rage, and trampled it under foot. Upon her asking him
+why he thus destroyed the resemblance of her future husband, he looked
+as if he did not understand her---then seizing her hands, and gazing
+on her with a frantic expression of countenance, he bade her swear
+that she would never wed this monster, for he----But he could not
+advance---it seemed as if that voice again bade him remember his
+oath---he turned suddenly round, thinking Lord Ruthven was near him
+but saw no one. In the meantime the guardians and physician, who had
+heard the whole, and thought this was but a return of his disorder,
+entered, and forcing him from Miss Aubrey, desired her to leave him.
+He fell upon his knees to them, he implored, he begged of them to
+delay but for one day. They, attributing this to the insanity they
+imagined had taken possession of his mind, endeavoured to pacify him,
+and retired.
+
+Lord Ruthven had called the morning after the drawing-room, and had
+been refused with every one else. When he heard of Aubrey's ill
+health, he readily understood himself to be the cause of it; but when
+he learned that he was deemed insane, his exultation and pleasure
+could hardly be concealed from those among whom he had gained this
+information. He hastened to the house of his former companion, and, by
+constant attendance, and the pretence of great affection for the
+brother and interest in his fate, he gradually won the car of Miss
+Aubrey. Who could resist his power? His tongue had dangers and toils
+to recount--could speak of himself as of an individual having no
+sympathy with any being on the crowded earth, save with her to whom he
+addressed himself;--could tell how, since he knew her, his existence,
+had begun to seem worthy of preservation, if it were merely that he
+might listen to her soothing accents;--in fine, he knew so well how to
+use the serpent's art, or such was the will of fate, that he gained
+her affections. The title of the elder branch falling at length to
+him, lie obtained an important embassy, which served as an excuse for
+hastening the marriage, (in spite of her brother's deranged state,)
+which was to take place the very day before his departure for the
+continent.
+
+Aubrey, when he was left by the physician and his guardians, attempted
+to bribe the servants, but in vain. He asked for pen and paper; it was
+given him; be wrote a letter to his sister, conjuring her, as she
+valued her own happiness, her own honour, and the honour of those now
+in the grave, who once held her in their arms as their hope and the
+hope of their house, to delay but for a few hours that marriage, on
+which he denounced the most heavy curses. The servants promised they
+would deliver it; but giving it to the physician, he thought it better
+not to harass any more the mind of Miss Aubrey by, what he considered,
+the ravings of a maniac. Night passed on without rest to the busy
+inmates of the house; and Aubrey heard, with a horror that may more
+easily be conceived than described, the notes of busy preparation.
+Morning came, and the sound of carriages broke upon his ear. Aubrey
+grew almost frantic. The curiosity of the servants at last overcame
+their vigilance, they gradually stole away, leaving him in the custody
+of an helpless old woman. He seized the opportunity, with one bound
+was out of the room, and in a moment found himself in the apartment
+where all were nearly assembled. Lord Ruthven was the first to
+perceive him: lie immediately approached, and, taking his arm by
+force, hurried him from the room, speechless with rage. When on the
+staircase, Lord Ruthven whispered in his ear--" Remember your oath,
+and know, if not my bride to day, your sister is dishonoured. Women
+are frail!" So saying, he pushed him towards his attendants, who,
+roused by the old woman, had come in search of him. Aubrey could no
+longer support himself; his rage not finding vent, had broken a
+blood-vessel, and he was conveyed to bed. This was not mentioned to
+his sister, who was not present when he entered, as the physician was
+afraid of agitating her. The marriage was solemnized, and the bride
+and bridegroom left London.
+
+Aubrey's weakness increased; the effusion of blood produced symptoms
+of the near approach of death. He desired his sister's guardians might
+be called, and when the midnight hour had struck, he related
+composedly what the reader has perused--he died immediately after.
+
+The guardians hastened to protect Miss Aubrey; but when they arrived,
+it was too late. Lord Ruthven had disappeared, and Aubrey's sister had
+glutted the thirst of a VAMPYRE!
+  _________________________________________________________________
+
+                         EXTRACT OF A LETTER,
+
+                        CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT
+
+                                  OF
+
+                        LORD BYRON'S RESIDENCE
+
+                                IN THE
+
+                         ISLAND OF MITYLENE.
+  _________________________________________________________________
+
+                               ACCOUNT
+
+                                  OF
+
+                     LORD BYRON'S RESIDENCE, &c.
+                            ______________
+
+"The world was all before him, where to choose his place of rest, and
+                        Providence his guide."
+
+IN Sailing through the Grecian Archipelago, on board one of his
+Majesty's vessels, in the year 1812, we put into the harbour of
+Mitylene, in the island of that name. The beauty of this place, and
+the certain supply of cattle and vegetables always to be had there,
+induce many British vessels to visit it---both men of war and
+merchantmen; and though it lies rather out of the track for ships
+bound to Smyrna, its bounties amply repay for the deviation of a
+voyage. We landed; as usual, at the bottom of the bay, and whilst the
+men were employed in watering, and the purser bargaining for cattle
+with the natives, the clergyman and myself took a ramble to the cave
+called Homer's School, and other places, where we had been before. On
+the brow of Mount Ida (a small monticule so named) we met with and
+engaged a young Greek as our guide, who told us he had come from Scio
+with an English lord, who left the island four days previous to our
+arrival in his felucca. "He engaged me as a pilot, " said the Greek, "
+and would have taken me with him; but I did not choose to quit
+Mitylene, where I am likely to get married. He was an odd, but a very
+good man. The cottage over the hill, facing the river, belongs to him,
+and he has left an old man in charge of it: he gave Dominick, the
+wine-trader, six hundred zechines for it, (about 250l. English
+currency,) and has resided there about fourteen months, though not
+constantly; for he sails in his felucca very often to the different
+islands. "
+
+This account excited our curiosity very much, and we lost no time in
+hastening to the house where out countryman had resided. We were
+kindly received by an old man, who conducted us over the mansion. It
+consisted of four apartments on the ground-floor---an entrance hall, a
+drawing-room, a sitting parlour, and a bed-room, with a spacious
+closet annexed. They were all simply decorated: plain green-stained
+walls, marble tables on either side, a large myrtle in the centre, and
+a small fountain beneath, which could be made to play through the
+branches by moving a spring fixed in the side of a small bronze Venus
+in a leaning posture; a large couch or sofa completed the furniture.
+In the hall stood half a dozen English cane chairs, and an empty
+book-case: there were no mirrors, nor a single painting. The
+bedchamber had merely a large mattress spread on the floor, with two
+stuffed cotton quilts and a pillow---the common bed throughout Greece.
+In the sitting-room we observed a marble recess, formerly, the old man
+told us, filled with books and papers, which were then in a large
+seaman's chest in the closet: it was open, but we did not think
+ourselves justified in examining the contents. On the tablet of the
+recess lay Voltaire's, Shakspeare's, Boileau's, and Rousseau's works
+complete; Volney's Ruins of Empires; Zimmerman, in the German
+language; Klopstock's Messiah; Kotzebue's novels; Schiller's play of
+the Robbers; Milton's Paradise Lost, an Italian edition, printed at
+Parma in 1810; several small pamphlets from the Greek press at
+Constantinople, much torn, but no English book of any description.
+Most of these books were filled with marginal notes, written with a
+pencil, in Italian and Latin. The Messiah was literally scribbled all
+over, and marked with slips of paper, on which also were remarks.
+
+The old man said: " The lord had been reading these books the evening
+before he sailed, and forgot to place them with the others; but, "
+said he, " there they must lie until his return; for he is so
+particular, that were I to move one thing without orders, he would
+frown upon me for a week together; he is otherways very good. I once
+did him a service; and I have the produce of this farm for the trouble
+of taking care of it, except twenty zechines which I pay to an aged
+Armenian who resides in a small cottage in the wood, and whom the lord
+brought here from Adrianople; I don't know for what reason. "
+
+The appearance of the house externally was pleasing. The portico in
+front was fifty paces long and fourteen broad, and the fluted marble
+pillars with black plinths and fret-work cornices, (as it is now
+customary in Grecian architecture,) were considerably higher than the
+roof. The roof, surrounded by a light stone balustrade, was covered by
+a fine Turkey carpet, beneath an awning of strong coarse linen. Most
+of the house-tops are thus furnished, as upon them the Greeks pass
+their evenings in smoking, drinking light wines, such as " lachryma
+christi, " eating fruit, and enjoying the evening breeze.
+
+On the left hand as we entered the house, a small streamlet glided
+away, grapes, oranges and limes were clustering together on its
+borders, and under the shade of two large myrtle bushes, a marble scat
+with an ornamental wooden back was placed, on which we were told, the
+lord passed many of his evenings and nights till twelve o'clock,
+reading, writing, and talking to himself. " I suppose, " said the old
+man, "praying" for he was very devout, and always attended our church
+twice a week, besides Sundays. "
+
+The view from this seat was what may be termed " a bird's-eye view. "
+A line of rich vineyards led the eye to Mount Calcla, covered with
+olive and myrtle trees in bloom, and on the summit of which an ancient
+Greek temple appeared in majestic decay. A small stream issuing from
+the ruins descended in broken cascades, until it was lost in the woods
+near the mountain's base. The sea smooth as glass, and an horizon
+unshadowed by a single cloud, terminates the view in front; and a
+little on the left, through a vista of lofty chesnut and palm-trees,
+several small islands were distinctly observed, studding the light
+blue wave with spots of emerald green. I seldom enjoyed a view more
+than I did this; but our enquiries were fruitless as to the name of
+the person who had resided in this romantic solitude: none knew his
+name but Dominick, his banker, who had gone to Candia. " The Armenian,
+" said our conductor, " could tell, but I am sure he will not,"---"And
+cannot you tell, old friend?" said I---" If I can, " said he, " I dare
+not. " We had not time to visit the Armenian, but on our return to the
+town we learnt several particulars of the isolated lord. He had
+portioned eight young girls when he was last upon the island, and even
+danced with them at the nuptial feast. He gave a cow to one man,
+horses to others, and cotton and silk to the girls who live by weaving
+these articles. He also bought a new boat for a fisherman who had lost
+his own in a gale, and he often gave Greek Testaments to the poor
+children. In short, he appeared to us, from all we collected, to have
+been a very eccentric and benevolent character. One circumstance we
+learnt, which our old friend at the cottage thought proper not to
+disclose. He had a most beautiful daughter, with whom the lord was
+often seen walking on the sea-shore, and he had bought her a
+piano-forte, and taught her himself the use of it.
+
+Such was the information with which we departed from the peaceful isle
+of Mitylene; our imaginations all on the rack, guessing who this
+rambler in Greece could be. He had money it was evident: he had
+philanthropy of disposition, and all those eccentricities which mark
+peculiar genius. Arrived at Palermo, all our doubts were dispelled.
+Falling in company with Mr. FOSTER, the architect, a pupil of WYATT'S,
+who had been travelling in Egypt and Greece, " The individual, " said
+he, " about whom you are so anxious, is Lord Byron; I met him in my
+travels on the island of Tenedos, and I also visited him at Mitylene.
+" We had never then heard of his lordship's fame, as we had been some
+years from home; but "Childe Harolde" being put into our hands we
+recognized the recluse of Calcla in every page. Deeply did we regret
+not having been more curious in our researches at the cottage, but we
+consoled ourselves with the idea of returning to Mitylene on some
+future day; but to me that day will never return. I make this
+statement, believing it not quite uninteresting, and in justice to his
+lordship's good name, which has been grossly slandered. He has been
+described as of an unfeeling disposition, averse to associating with
+human nature, or contributing in any way to sooth its sorrows, or add
+to its pleasures. The fact is directly the reverse, as may be plainly
+gathered from these little anecdotes. All the finer feelings of the
+heart, so elegantly depicted in his lordship's poems, seem to have
+their seat in his bosom. Tenderness, sympathy, and charity appear to
+guide all his actions: and his courting the repose of solitude is an
+additional reason for marking him as a being on whose heart Religion
+hath set her seal, and over whose head Benevolence hath thrown her
+mantle. No man can read the preceding pleasing "traits" without
+feeling proud of him as a countryman. With respect to his loves or
+pleasures, I do not assume a right to give an opinion. Reports are
+ever to be received with caution, particularly when directed against
+man's moral integrity; and he who dares justify himself before that
+awful tribunal where all must appear, alone may censure the errors of
+a fellow-mortal. Lord Byron's character is worthy of his genius. To do
+good in secret, and shun the world's applause, is the surest testimony
+of a virtuous heart and self-approving conscience.
+
+                               THE END
+                        _____________________
+
+             Gillet, Printer, Crown-court, Fleet-street.
+
+
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+<p align="center">THE</p>
+
+<h3 align="center">VAMPYRE;</h3>
+
+<h4 align="center">A Tale</h4>
+
+<hr>
+<p align="center"><font size="-2">THE</font></p>
+
+<h3 align="center">VAMPYRE;</h3>
+
+<h3 align="center">A Tale.</h3>
+
+<h3 align="center">By John William Polidori</h3>
+
+<hr width="25%">
+<p align="center">LONDON:</p>
+
+<p align="center"><font size="-1">PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, NEELY,
+AND JONES,<br>
+PATERNOSTER-ROW.</font></p>
+
+<hr width="5%">
+<p align="center">1819.</p>
+
+<p align="center"><font size="-2">[Entered at Stationers' Hall,
+March 27, 1819.]</font></p>
+
+<hr>
+<p align="center"><font size="-2">Gillet, Printer, Crown Court,
+Fleet Street, London.</font></p>
+
+<hr>
+<p align="center">EXTRACT</p>
+
+<p align="center"><font size="-2">OF A</font></p>
+
+<p align="center">LETTER TO THE EDITOR.</p>
+
+<hr>
+<p align="center">EXTRACT OF A LETTER</p>
+
+<p align="center"><font size="-1">FROM GENEVA.</font></p>
+
+<hr width="20%">
+<p>" I breathe freely in the neighbourhood of this lake; the
+ground upon which I tread has been subdued from the earliest
+ages; the principal objects which immediately strike my eye,
+bring to my recollection scenes, in which man acted the hero and
+was the chief object of interest. Not to look back to earlier
+times of battles and sieges, here is the bust of
+Rousseau&mdash;here is a house with an inscription denoting that
+the Genevan philosopher first drew breath under its roof. A
+little out of the town is Ferney, the residence of Voltaire;
+where that wonderful, though certainly in many respects
+contemptible, character, received, like the hermits of old, the
+visits of pilgrims, not only from his own nation, but from the
+farthest boundaries of Europe. Here too is Bonnet's abode, and, a
+few steps beyond, the house of that astonishing woman Madame de
+Stael: perhaps the first of her sex, who has really proved its
+often claimed equality with, the nobler man. We have before had
+women who have written interesting-novels and poems, in which
+their tact at observing drawing-room characters has availed them;
+but never since the days of Heloise have those faculties which
+arc peculiar to man, been developed as the possible inheritance
+of woman. Though even here, as in the case of Heloise, our sex
+have not been backward in alledging the existence of an Abeilard
+in the person of M. Schlegel as the inspirer of her works. But to
+proceed: upon the same side of the lake, Gibbon, Bonnivard,
+Bradshaw, and others mark, as it were, the stages for our
+progress; whilst upon the other side there is one house, built by
+Diodati, the friend of Milton, which has contained within its
+walls, for several months, that poet whom we have so often read
+together, and who&mdash;if human passions remain the same, and
+human feelings, like. chords, on being swept by nature's impulses
+shall vibrate as before---will be placed by posterity in the
+first rank of our English Poets. You must have heard, or the
+Third Canto of Childe Harold will have informed you, that Lord
+Byron resided many months in this neighbourhood. I went with some
+friends a few days ago, after having seen Ferney, to view this
+mansion. I trod the floors with the same feelings of awe and
+respect as we did, together, those of Shakespeare's dwelling at
+Stratford. I sat down in a chair of the saloon, and satisfied
+myself that I was resting on what he had made his constant scat.
+I found a servant there who had lived with him; she, however,
+gave me but little information. She pointed out his bed-chamber
+upon the same level as the saloon and dining-room, and informed
+me that he retired to rest at three, got up at two, and employed
+himself a long time over his toilette; that he never went to
+sleep without a pair of pistols and a dagger by his side, and
+that he never eat animal food. He apparently spent some part of
+every day upon the lake in an English boat. There is a balcony
+from the saloon which looks upon the lake and the mountain Jura;
+and I imagine, that it must have been hence, he contemplated the
+storm BO magnificently described in the Third Canto; for you have
+from here a most extensive view of all the points he has therein
+depicted. I can fancy him like the scathed pine, whilst all
+around was sunk to repose, still waking to observe, what gave but
+a weak image of the storms which had desolated his own
+breast.</p>
+
+<table summary="vampy">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p>The sky is changed!&mdash;and such a change; Oh, night!<br>
+And storm and darkness, ye are wond'rous strong,<br>
+Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light<br>
+Of a dark eye in woman! Far along<br>
+&gt;From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,<br>
+Leaps the lire thunder! Not from one lone cloud,<br>
+But every mountain now hath found a tongue,<br>
+And Jura answers thro' her misty shroud,<br>
+Back to the joyous Alps who call to her aloud!</p>
+
+<p>And this is in the night:&mdash;Most glorious night!<br>
+Thou wer't not sent for slumber! let me be<br>
+A sharer in thy far and fierce delight,&mdash;<br>
+A portion of the tempest and of me!<br>
+How the lit lake shines a phosphoric sea,<br>
+And the big rain comet dancing to the earth!<br>
+And now again 'tis black,&mdash;and now the glee<br>
+Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain mirth,<br>
+As if they did rejoice o'er a young; earthquake's birth,</p>
+
+<p>Now where the swift Rhine cleaves his way between<br>
+Heights which appear, as lovers who have parted<br>
+In haste, whose mining depths so intervene,<br>
+That they can meet no more, tho' broken hearted;<br>
+Tho' in their souls which thus each other thwarted,<br>
+Love was the very root of the fond rage<br>
+Which blighted their life's bloom, and then departed&mdash;<br>
+Itself expired, but leaving; them an age<br>
+Of years all winter&mdash;war within themselves to wage.</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<br>
+<br>
+ 
+
+<p>I went clown to the little port, if I may use the expression,
+wherein his vessel used to lay, and conversed with the cottager,
+who had the care of it. You may smile, but I have my pleasure in
+thus helping my personification of the individual I admire, by
+attaining to the knowledge of those circumstances which were
+daily around him. I have made numerous enquiries in the town
+concerning him, but can learn nothing. He only went into society
+there once, when M. Pictet took him to the house of a lady to
+spend the evening. They say he is a very singular man, and seem
+to think him very uncivil. Amongst other things they relate, that
+having invited M. Pictet and Bonstetten to dinner, he went on the
+lake to Chillon, leaving a gentleman who travelled with him to
+receive them and make his apologies. Another evening, being
+invited to the house of Lady D------ H------, he promised to
+attend, but upon approaching the windows of her ladyship's villa,
+and perceiving the room to be full of company, he set down his
+friend, desiring him to plead his excuse, and immediately
+returned home. This will serve as a contradiction to the report
+which yon tell me is current in England, of his having been
+avoided by his countrymen on the continent. The case happens to
+be directly the reverse, as he has been generally sought by them,
+though on most occasions, apparently without success. It is said,
+indeed, that upon paying his first visit at Coppet, following the
+servant who had announced his name, he was surprised to meet a
+lady carried oat fainting; but before he had been seated many
+minutes, the same lady, who had been so affected at the sound of
+his name, returned and conversed with him a considerable time---
+such is female curiosity and affectation! He visited Coppet
+frequently, and of course associated there with several of his
+countrymen, who evinced no reluctance to moot him whom his
+enemies alone would represent as au outcast.</p>
+
+<p>Though I have been so unsuccessful in this town, 1 have been
+more fortunate in my enquiries elsewhere. There is a society
+three or four miles from Geneva, the centre of which is the
+Countess of Breuss, a Russian lady, well acquainted with the
+<i>agr&eacute;mens de la Soci&eacute;t&eacute;</i>, and who has
+collected them round herself at her mansion. It was chiefly here,
+I find, that the gentleman who travelled with Lord Byron, as
+physician, sought for society. He used almost every day to cross
+the lake by himself, in one of their flat-bottomed boats, and
+return after passing the evening with his friends, about eleven
+or twelve at night, often whilst the storms were raging in the
+circling summits of the mountains around. As he became intimate,
+from long acquaintance, with several of the families in this
+neighbourhood, I have gathered from their accounts some excellent
+traits of his lordship's character, which I will relate to you at
+some future opportunity. I must, however, free him from one
+imputation attached to him--- of having in his house two sisters
+as the partakers of his revels. This is, like many other charges
+which have been brought against his lordship, entirely destitute
+of truth. His only companion was the physician I have already
+mentioned. The report originated from the following circumstance:
+Mr. Percy Bysshe Shelly, a gentleman well known for extravagance
+of doctrine, and for his daring, in their profession, even to
+sign himself with the title of A&Theta;&epsilon;&omicron;&sigmaf;
+in the Album at Chamouny, having taken a house below, in which he
+resided with Miss M. W. Godwin and Miss Clermont, (the daughters
+of the celebrated Mr. Godwin) they were frequently visitors at
+Diodati, and were often seen upon the lake with his Lordship,
+which gave rise to the report, the truth of which is here
+positively denied.</p>
+
+<p>Among other things which the lady, from whom I procured these
+anecdotes, related to me, she mentioned tho outline of a ghost
+story by Lord Byron. It appears that one evening Lord B., Mr. P.
+B. Shelly, the two ladies and the gentleman before alluded to,
+after having perused a German work, which was entitled
+Phantasmagoriana, began relating ghost stories; when his lordship
+having recited the beginning of Christabel, then unpublished, the
+whole took so strong a hold of Mr. Shelly's mind, that he
+suddenly started up and ran out of the room. The physician and
+Lord Byron followed, and discovered him leaning against a
+mantle-piece, with cold drops of perspiration trickling down his
+face. After having given him something to refresh him, upon
+enquiring into the cause of his alarm, they found that his wild
+imagination having pictured to him the bosom of one of the ladies
+with eyes (which was reported of a lady in the neighbourhood
+where he lived) he was obliged to leave the room in order to
+destroy the impression. It was afterwards proposed, in the course
+of conversation, that each of the company present should write a
+tale depending upon some supernatural agency, which was
+undertaken by Lord B., the physician, and Miss M. W. Godwin.<b><a
+href="#footnote1">*</a></b> My friend, the lady above referred
+to, had in her possession the outline of each of these stories; I
+obtained them as a great favour, and herewith Forward them to
+you, as I was assured you would feel as much curiosity as myself,
+to peruse the <i>ebauches</i> of so great a genius, and those
+immediately under his influence. "</p>
+
+<hr width="60%">
+<a name="footnote1"></a>
+<p><b>*</b> Since published under the title of "Frankenstein; or,
+The Modern Prometheus."</p>
+
+<hr>
+<h3 align="center">THE VAMPYRE.</h3>
+
+<hr>
+<h3 align="center">INTRODUCTION.</h3>
+
+<hr width="15%">
+<p>THE superstition upon which this tale is founded is very
+general in the East. Among the Arabians it appears to be common:
+it did not, however, extend itself to the Greeks until after the
+establishment of Christianity; and it has only assumed its
+present form since the division of the Latin and Greek churches;
+at which time, the idea becoming prevalent, that a Latin body
+could not corrupt if buried in their territory, it gradually
+increased, and formed the subject of many wonderful stories,
+still extant, of the dead rising from their graves, and feeding
+upon the blood of the young and beautiful. In the West it spread,
+with some slight variation, all over Hungary, Poland, Austria,
+and Lorraine, where the belief existed, that vampyres nightly
+imbibed a certain portion of the blood of their victims, who
+became emaciated, lost their strength, and speedily died of
+consumptions; whilst these human blood-suckers fattened --- and
+their veins became distended to such a state of repletion, as to
+cause the blood to flow from all the passages of their bodies,
+and even from the very pores of their skins.</p>
+
+<p>In the London Journal, of March, 1732, is a curious, and, of
+course, <i>credible</i> account of a particular case of
+vampyrism, which is stated to have occurred at Madreyga, in
+Hungary. It appears, that upon an examination of the
+commander-in-chief and magistrates of the place, they positively
+and unanimously affirmed, that, about five years before, a
+certain Heyduke, named Arnold Paul, had been heard to say, that,
+at Cassovia, on the frontiers of the Turkish Servia, he had been
+tormented by a vampyre, but had found a way to rid himself of the
+evil, by eating some of the earth out of the vampyre's grave, and
+rubbing himself with his blood. This precaution, however, did not
+prevent him from becoming a vampyre<b><a href=
+"#footnote1">*</a></b> himself; for, about twenty or thirty days
+after his death and burial, many persons complained of having
+been tormented by him, and a deposition was made, that four
+persons had been deprived of life by his attacks. To prevent
+further mischief, the inhabitants having consulted their
+Hadagni,<b><a href="#footnote2">&dagger;</a></b> took up tho
+body, and found it (as is supposed to be usual in cases of
+vampyrism) fresh, and entirely free from corruption, and emitting
+at the mouth, nose, and ears, pure and florid blood. Proof having
+been thus obtained, they resorted to the accustomed remedy. A
+stake was driven entirely through the heart and body of Arnold
+Paul, at which he is reported to have cried out as dreadfully as
+if he had been alive. This done, they cut off his head, burned
+his body, and threw the ashes into his grave. The same measures
+were adopted with the corses of those persons who had previously
+died from vampyrism, lest they should, in their turn, become
+agents upon others who survived them.</p>
+
+<a name="footnote1"></a>
+<p><font size="-2">* The universal belief is, that a person
+tucked by a vampyre becomes a vampyre himself, and sucks in his
+turn.</font></p>
+
+<a name="footnote2"></a>
+<p><font size="-2">&dagger; Chief bailiff.</font></p>
+
+<p>This monstrous rodomontade is here related, because it seems
+better adapted to illustrate the subject of the present
+observations than any other instance which could be adduced. In
+many parts of Greece it is considered as a sort of punishment
+after death, for some heinous crime committed whilst in
+existence, that the deceased is not only doomed to vampyrise, but
+compelled to confine his infernal visitations solely to those
+beings he loved most while upon earth&mdash;those to whom he was
+bound by ties of kindred and affection. ---A supposition alluded
+to in the "Giaour."</p>
+
+<table summary="vampy2">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p>But first on earth, as Vampyre sent,<br>
+Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent;<br>
+Then ghastly haunt the native place,<br>
+And suck the blood of all thy race;<br>
+There from thy <i>daughter, sister, wife</i>,<br>
+At midnight drain the stream of life;<br>
+<i>Yet loathe the banquet which perforce</i><br>
+Must feed thy livid living corse,<br>
+Thy victims, ere they yet expire,<br>
+Shall know the demon for their sire;<br>
+As cursing thee, thou cursing them,<br>
+Thy flowers are withered on the stem.<br>
+But one that for <i>thy crime</i> must fall,<br>
+The youngest, best beloved of all,<br>
+Shall bless thee with a <i>father's</i> name&mdash;<br>
+That word shall wrap thy heart in flame!<br>
+Yet thou must end thy task and mark<br>
+Her cheek's last tinge&mdash;her eye's last spark,<br>
+And the last glassy glance must view<br>
+Which freezes o'er its lifeless blue;<br>
+Then with unhallowed hand shall tear<br>
+The tresses of her yellow hair,<br>
+Of which, in life a lock when shorn<br>
+Affection's fondest pledge was worn&mdash;<br>
+But now is borne away by thee<br>
+Memorial of thine agony!<br>
+Yet with thine own best blood shall drip;<br>
+Thy gnashing tooth, and haggard lip;<br>
+Then stalking to thy sullen grave,<br>
+Go&mdash;and with Gouls and Afrits rave,<br>
+Till these in horror shrink away<br>
+&gt;From spectre more accursed than they.</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>Mr. Southey has also introduced in his wild but beautiful poem
+of " Thalaba, " the vampyre corse of the Arabian maid Oneiza, who
+is represented as having returned from the grave for the purpose
+of tormenting him she best loved whilst in existence. But this
+cannot be supposed to have resulted from the sinfulness of her
+life, she being pourtrayed throughout the whole of the tale as a
+complete type of purity and innocence. The veracious Tournefort
+gives a long account in his travels of several astonishing cases
+of vampyrism, to which he pretends to have been an eyewitness;
+and Calmet, in his great work upon this subject, besides a
+variety of anecdotes, and traditionary narratives illustrative of
+its effects, has put forth some learned dissertations, tending to
+prove it to be a classical, as well as barbarian error.</p>
+
+<p>Many curious and interesting notices on this singularly
+horrible superstition might be added; though the present may
+suffice for the limits of a note, necessarily devoted to
+explanation, and which may now be concluded by merely remarking,
+that though the term Vampyre is the one in most general
+acceptation, there are several others synonimous with it, made
+use of in various parts of the world: as Vroucolocha,
+Vardoulacha, Goul, Broucoloka, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<hr>
+<h3 align="center">THE VAMPYRE.</h3>
+
+<hr width="15%">
+<p>IT happened that in the midst of the dissipations attendant
+upon a London winter, there appeared at the various parties of
+the leaders of the <i>ton</i> a nobleman, more remarkable for his
+singularities, than his rank. He gazed upon the mirth around him,
+as if he could not participate therein. Apparently, the light
+laughter of the fair only attracted his attention, that he might
+by a look quell it, and throw fear into those breasts where
+thoughtlessness reigned. Those who felt this sensation of awe,
+could not explain whence it arose: some attributed it to the dead
+grey eye, which, fixing upon the object's face, did not seem to
+penetrate, and at one glance to pierce through to the inward
+workings of the heart; but fell upon the cheek with a leaden ray
+that weighed upon the skin it could not pass. His peculiarities
+caused him to be invited to every house; all wished to see him,
+and those who had been accustomed to violent excitement, and now
+felt the weight of <i>ennui</i>, were pleased at having something
+in their presence capable of engaging their attention. In spite
+of the deadly hue of his face, which never gained a warmer tint,
+either from the blush of modesty, or from the strong emotion of
+passion, though its form and outline were beautiful, many of the
+female hunters after notoriety attempted to win his attentions,
+and gain, at least, some marks of what they might term affection:
+Lady Mercer, who had been the mockery of every monster shewn in
+drawing-rooms since her marriage, threw herself in his way, and
+did all but put on the dress of a mountebank, to attract his
+notice:--- though in vain:--- when she stood before him, though
+his eyes were apparently fixed upon her's, still it seemed as if
+they were unperceived;---even her unappalled impudence was
+baffled, and she left, the field. But though the common adultress
+could not influence even the guidance of his eyes, it was not
+that the female sex was indifferent to him: yet such was the
+apparent caution with which he spoke to the virtuous wife and
+innocent daughter, that few knew he ever addressed himself to
+females. He had, however, the reputation of a winning tongue; and
+whether it was that it even overcame the dread of his singular
+character, or that they were moved by his apparent hatred of
+vice, he was as often among those females who form the boast of
+their sex from their domestic virtues, as among those who sully
+it by their vices.</p>
+
+<p>About the same time, there came to London a young gentleman of
+the name of Aubrey: he was an orphan left with an only sister in
+the possession of great wealth, by parent&raquo; who died while
+he was yet in childhood. Left also to himself by guardians, who
+thought it their duty merely to take care of his fortune, while
+they relinquished the more important charge of his mind to the
+care of mercenary subalterns, he cultivated more his imagination
+than his judgment. He had, hence, that high romantic feeling of
+honour and candour, which daily ruins so many milliners'
+apprentices. He believed all to sympathise with virtue, and
+thought that vice was thrown in by Providence merely for the
+picturesque effect of the scene, as we see in romances: he
+thought that the misery of a cottage merely consisted in the
+vesting of clothes, which were as warm, but which were better
+adapted to the painter's eye by their irregular folds and various
+coloured patches. Me thought, in fine, that the dreams of poets
+were the realities of life. He was handsome, frank, and rich: for
+these reasons, upon his entering into the gay circles, many
+mothers surrounded him, striving which should describe with least
+truth their languishing or romping favourites: the daughters at
+the same time, by their brightening countenances when he
+approached, and by their sparkling eyes, when he opened his lips,
+soon led him into false notions of his talents and his merit.
+Attached as lie was to the romance of his solitary hours, he was
+startled at finding, that, except in the tallow and wax candles
+that flickered, not from the presence of a ghost, but from want
+of snuffing, there was no foundation in real life for any of that
+congeries of pleasing pictures and descriptions contained in
+those volumes, from which he had formed his study. Finding,
+however, some compensation in his gratified vanity, he was about
+to relinquish his dreams, when the extraordinary being we have
+above described, crossed him in his career.</p>
+
+<p>He watched him; and the very impossibility of forming an idea
+of the character of a man entirely absorbed in himself, who gave
+few other signs of his observation of external objects, than the
+tacit assent to their existence, implied by the avoidance of
+their contact: allowing his imagination to picture every thing
+that flattered its propensity to extravagant ideas, he soon
+formed this object into the hero of a romance, and determined to
+observe the offspring of his fancy, rather than the person before
+him. He became acquainted with him, paid him attentions, and so
+far advanced upon his notice, that his presence was always
+recognised. He gradually learnt that Lord Ruthven's affairs were
+embarrassed, and soon found, from the notes of preparation in
+&mdash; Street, that he was about to travel. Desirous of gaining
+some information respecting this singular character, who, till
+now, had only whetted his curiosity, he hinted to his guardians,
+that it was time for him to perform the tour, which for many
+generations has been thought necessary to enable the young to
+take some rapid steps in the career of vice towards putting
+themselves upon an equality with the aged, and not allowing them
+to appear as if fallen from the skies, whenever scandalous
+intrigues are mentioned as the subjects of pleasantry or of
+praise, according to the degree of skill shewn in carrying them
+on. They consented: and Aubrey immediately mentioning his
+intentions to Lord Ruthven, was surprised to receive from him a
+proposal to join him. Flattered by such a mark of esteem from
+him, who, apparently, had nothing in common with other men, he
+gladly accepted it, and in a few days they hail passed the
+circling waters.</p>
+
+<p>Hitherto, Aubrey had had no opportunity of studying Lord
+Ruthven's character, and now he found, that, though many more of
+his actions were exposed to his view, the results offered
+different conclusions from (lie apparent motives to his conduct.
+His companion was profuse in his liberality; ---the idle, the
+vagabond, and the beggar, received from his hand more than enough
+to relieve their immediate wants. But Aubrey could not avoid
+remarking, that it was not upon the virtuous, reduced to
+indigence by the misfortunes attendant even upon virtue, that he
+bestowed his alms; ---these were sent from the door with hardly
+suppressed sneers; but when the profligate came to ask something,
+not to relieve his wants, but to allow him to wallow in his lust,
+or to sink him still deeper in his iniquity, he was sent away
+with rich charity. This was, however, attributed by him to the
+greater importunity of the vicious, which generally prevails over
+the retiring bashfulness of the virtuous indigent. There was one
+circumstance about the charity of his Lordship, which was still
+more impressed upon his mind: all those upon whom it was
+bestowed, inevitably found that there was a curse upon it, for
+they were all either led to the scaffold, or sunk to the lowest
+and the most abject misery. At Brussels and other towns through
+which they passed, Aubrey was surprized at the apparent eagerness
+with which his companion sought for the centres of all
+fashionable vice; there he entered into all the spirit of the
+faro table: he betted, and always gambled with success, except
+where the known sharper was his antagonist, and then he lost even
+more than he gained; but it was always with the same unchanging
+face, with which he generally watched the society around: it was
+not, however, so when he encountered the rash youthful novice, or
+the luckless father of a numerous family; then his very wish
+seemed fortune's law---this apparent abstractedness of mind was
+laid aside, and his eyes sparkled with more fire than that of the
+cat whilst dallying with lire half-dead mouse. In every town, he
+left the formerly affluent youth, torn from the circle he
+adorned, cursing, in the solitude of a dungeon, the fate that had
+drawn him within the reach of this fiend; whilst many a father
+sat frantic, amidst the speaking looks of mute hungry children,
+without a single farthing of his late immense wealth, wherewith
+to buy even sufficient to satisfy their present craving. Yet he
+took no money from tho gambling table; but immediately lost, to
+the ruiner of many, the last gilder he had just snatched from the
+convulsive grasp of the innocent: this might but be the result of
+a certain degree of knowledge, which was not, however, capable of
+combating the cunning of the more experienced. Aubrey often
+wished to represent this to his friend, and beg him to resign
+that charity and pleasure which proved the ruin of all, and did
+not tend to his own profit; ---but he delayed it---for each day
+ho hoped his friend would give him some opportunity of speaking
+frankly and openly to him; however, this never occurred. Lord
+Ruthven in his carriage, and amidst the various wild and rich
+scenes of nature, was always the same: his eye spoke less than
+his lip; and though Aubrey was near the object of his curiosity,
+he obtained no greater gratification from it than the constant
+excitement of vainly wishing to break that mystery, which to his
+exalted imagination began to assume the appearance of something
+supernatural.</p>
+
+<p>They soon arrived at Rome, and Aubrey for a time lost sight of
+his companion; he left him in daily attendance upon the morning
+circle of an Italian countess, whilst he went in search of the
+memorials of another almost deserted city. Whilst he was thus
+engaged, letters arrived from England, which he opened with eager
+impatience; the first was from his sister, breathing nothing but
+affection; the others were from his guardians, the latter
+astonished him; if it had before entered into his imagination
+that there was an evil power resident in his companion, these
+seemed to give him sufficient reason for the belief. His
+guardians insisted upon his immediately leaving his friend, and
+urged, that his character was dreadfully vicious, for that the
+possession of irresistible powers of seduction, rendered his
+licentious habits more dangerous to society. It had been
+discovered, that his contempt for the adultress had not
+originated in hatred of her character; but that he had required,
+to enhance his gratification, that his victim, the partner of his
+guilt, should be hurled from the pinnacle of unsullied virtue,
+down to the lowest abyss of infamy and degradation: in fine, that
+all those females whom he had sought, apparently on account of
+their virtue, had, since his departure, thrown even the mask
+aside, and had not scrupled to expose the whole deformity of
+their vices to the public gaze.</p>
+
+<p>Aubrey determined upon leaving one, whose character had not
+yet shown a single bright point on which to rest the eye. He
+resolved to invent some plausible pretext for abandoning him
+altogether, purposing, in the mean while, to watch him more
+closely, and to let no slight circumstances pass by unnoticed. He
+entered into the same circle, and soon perceived, that his
+Lordship was endeavouring to work upon the inexperience of the
+daughter of the lady whose house he chiefly frequented. In Italy,
+it is seldom that an unmarried female is met with in society; he
+was therefore obliged to carry on his plans in secret; but
+Aubrey's eye followed him in all his windings, and soon
+discovered that an assignation had been appointed, which would
+most likely end in the ruin of an innocent, though thoughtless
+girl. Losing no time, he entered the apartment of Lord Ruthven,
+and abruptly asked him his intentions with respect to the lady,
+informing him at the same time that he was aware of his being
+about to meet her that very night. Lord Ruthven answered, that
+his intentions were such as he supposed all would have upon such
+an occasion; and upon being pressed whether he intended to marry
+her, merely laughed. Aubrey retired; and, immediately writing a
+note, to say, that from that moment he must decline accompanying
+his Lordship in the remainder of their proposed tour, ho ordered
+his servant to seek other apartments, and calling upon tho mother
+of the lady, informed her of all he knew, not only with regard to
+her daughter, but also concerning the character of his Lordship.
+The assignation was prevented. Lord Ruthven next day merely sent
+his servant to notify his complete assent to a separation; but
+did not hint any suspicion of his plans having been foiled by
+Aubrey's interposition.</p>
+
+<p>Having left Rome, Aubrey directed his steps towards Greece,
+and crossing the Peninsula, soon found himself at Athens. He then
+fixed his residence in the house of a Greek; and soon occupied
+himself in tracing the faded records of ancient glory upon
+monuments that apparently, ashamed of chronicling the deeds of
+freemen only before slaves, had hidden themselves beneath the
+sheltering soil or many coloured lichen. Under the same roof as
+himself, existed a being, so beautiful and delicate, that she
+might have formed the model for a painter, wishing; to pourtray
+oil canvass the promised hope of the faithful in Mahomet's
+paradise, save that her eyes spoke too much mind for any one to
+think she could belong to those who had no souls. As she danced
+upon the plain, or tripped along the mountain's side, one would
+have thought the gazelle a poor type of her beauties; for who
+would have exchanged her eye, apparently the eye of animated
+nature, for that sleepy luxurious look of the animal suited but
+to the taste of an epicure. The light step of Ianthe often
+accompanied Aubrey in his search after antiquities, and often
+would the unconscious girl, engaged in the pursuit of a Kashmere
+butterfly, show the whole beauty of her form, floating as it were
+upon the wind, to the eager gaze of him, who forgot the letters
+he had just decyphered upon an almost effaced tablet, in tho
+contemplation of her sylph-like figure. Often would her tresses
+falling, as she flitted around, exhibit in the sun's ray such
+delicately brilliant and swiftly fading hues, its might well
+excuse the forgetfulness of the antiquary, who let escape from
+his mind the very object he had before thought of vital
+importance to the proper interpretation of a passage in
+Pausanias. But why attempt to describe charms which all feel, but
+none can appreciate?---It was innocence, youth, and beauty,
+unaffected by crowded drawing-rooms and stifling- balls. Whilst
+he drew those remains of which lie wished to preserve a memorial
+for his future hours, she would stand by, and watch the magic
+effects of his pencil, in tracing the scenes of her native place;
+she would then describe to him the circling dance upon the open
+plain, would paint, to him in all the glowing colours of youthful
+memory, the marriage pomp she remembered viewing in her infancy;
+and then, turning to subjects that had evidently made a greater
+impression upon her mind, would tell him all the supernatural
+tales of her nurse. Her earnestness and apparent belief of what
+she narrated, excited the interest even of Aubrey; and often as
+she told him the tale of the living vampyre, who had passed years
+amidst his friends, and dearest ties, forced every year, by
+feeding upon the life of a lovely female to prolong his existence
+for the ensuing months, his blood would run cold, whilst he
+attempted to laugh her out of such idle and horrible fantasies;
+&gt; but lathe cited to him the names of old men, who had at last
+detected one living among themselves, after several of their near
+relatives and children had been found marked with the stamp of
+the fiend's appetite,; and when she found him so incredulous, she
+begged of him to believe her, for it had been, remarked, that
+those who had dared to question their existence, always had some
+proof given, which obliged them, with grief and heartbreaking, to
+confess it was true. She detailed to him the traditional
+appearance of these monsters, and his horror was increased, by
+hearing a pretty accurate description of Lord Ruthven; he,
+however, still persisted in persuading her, that there could be
+no truth in her fears, though at the same time he wondered at the
+many coincidences which had all tended to excite a belief in the
+supernatural power of Lord Ruthven.</p>
+
+<p>Aubrey began to attach himself more and more to Ianthe; her
+innocence, so contrasted with all the affected virtues of the
+women among whom he had sought for his vision of romance, won his
+heart; and while he ridiculed the idea of a young man of English
+habits, marrying an uneducated Greek girl, still he found himself
+more and more attached to the almost fairy form before him. He
+would tear himself at times from her, and, forming a plan for
+some antiquarian research, he would depart, determined not to
+return until his object was attained; but he always found it
+impossible to fix his attention upon the ruins around him, whilst
+in his mind he retained an image that seemed alone the rightful
+possessor of his thoughts. Ianthe was unconscious of his love,
+and was ever the same frank infantile being he had find: known.
+She always seemed to part from him with reluctance; but it was
+because she had no longer any one with whom she could visit her
+favourite haunts, whilst her guardian was occupied in sketching
+or uncovering some fragment which had yet escaped the destructive
+hand of time. She had appealed to her parents on the subject of
+Vampyres, and they both, with several present, affirmed their
+existence, pale with horror at the very name. Soon after, Aubrey
+determined to proceed upon one of his excursions, which was to
+detain him for a few hours; when they heard the name of the
+place, they all at once begged of him not to return at night, as
+he must necessarily pass through a wood, where no Greek would
+ever remain, after the day had closed, upon any consideration.
+They described it as the resort of the vampyres in their
+nocturnal orgies, and denounced the most heavy evils as impending
+upon him who dared to cross their path. Aubrey made light of
+their representations, and tried to laugh them out of the idea;
+but when he saw them shudder at his daring thus to mock a
+superior, infernal power, the very name of which apparently made
+their blood freeze, he was silent.</p>
+
+<p>Next morning Aubrey set off upon his excursion unattended; he
+was surprised to observe the melancholy face of his host, and was
+concerned to find that his words, mocking the belief of those
+horrible fiends, had inspired them with such terror. When he was
+about to depart, Ianthe came to the side of his horse, and
+earnestly begged of him to return, ore night allowed the power of
+these beings to be put in action;---he promised. He was, however,
+so occupied in his research, that lie did not perceive that
+day-light would soon end, and that in the horizon there was one
+of those specks which, in the warmer climates, so rapidly gather
+into a tremendous mass, and pour all their rage upon the devoted
+country. ---He at last, however, mounted his horse, determined to
+make up by speed for his delay: but it was too late. Twilight, in
+these southern climates, is almost unknown; immediately the sun
+sets, night begins: and ere he had advanced far, the power of the
+storm was above---its echoing thunders had scarcely an interval
+of rest---its thick heavy rain forced its way through the
+canopying foliage, whilst the blue forked lightning seemed to
+fall and radiate at his very feet. Suddenly his horse took
+fright, and he was carried with dreadful rapidity through the
+entangled forest. The animal at last, through fatigue, stopped,
+and he found, by the glare of lightning, that he was in the
+neighbourhood of a hovel that hardly lifted itself up from the
+masses of dead leaves and brushwood which surrounded it.
+Dismounting, he approached, hoping to find some one to guide him
+to the town, or at least trusting to obtain shelter from the
+pelting of the storm. As he approached, the thunders, for a
+moment silent, allowed him to hear the dreadful shrieks of a
+woman mingling with the stifled, exultant mockery of a laugh,
+continued in one almost unbroken sound;---he was startled: but,
+roused by the thunder which again rolled over his head, he, with
+a sudden effort, forced open the door of the hut. He found
+himself in utter darkness: the sound, however, guided him. He was
+apparently unperceived; for, though he called, still the sounds
+continued, and no notice was taken of him. He found himself in
+contact with some one, whom he immediately seized; when a voice
+cried, "Again baffled!" to which a loud laugh succeeded; and he
+felt himself grappled by one whose strength seemed superhuman:
+determined to sell his life as dearly as he could, he struggled;
+but it was in vain: he was lifted from his feet and hurled with
+enormous force against the ground: ---his enemy threw himself
+upon him, and kneeling upon his breast, had placed his hands upon
+his throat --- when the glare of many torches penetrating through
+the hole that gave light in the day, disturbed him;---he
+instantly rose, and, leaving his prey, rushed through the door,
+and in a moment the crashing of the brandies, as he broke through
+the wood, was no longer heard. The storm was now still; and
+Aubrey, incapable of moving, was soon heard by those without.
+They entered; the light of their torches fell upon the mud walls,
+and the thatch loaded on every individual straw with heavy flakes
+of soot. At the desire of Aubrey they searched for her who had
+attracted him by her cries; he was again left in darkness; but
+what was his horror, when the light of the torches once more
+burs; upon him, to perceive the airy form of his fair conductress
+brought in a lifeless corse. He shut his eyes, hoping that it was
+but a vision arising from his disturbed imagination; but he again
+saw the same form, when he unclosed them, stretched by his side.
+There was no colour upon her cheek, not even upon her lip; yet
+there was a stillness about her face that seemed almost as
+attaching as the life that once dwelt there:--- upon her neck and
+breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth
+having opened the vein:---to this the men pointed, crying,
+simultaneously struck with horror, " A Vampyre! a Vampyre!" A
+litter was quickly formed, and Aubrey was laid by the side of her
+who had lately been to him the object of so many bright and fairy
+visions, now fallen with the flower of life that had died within
+her. He knew not what his thoughts were---his mind was benumbed
+and seemed to shun reflection, and take refuge in vacancy---he
+held almost unconsciously in his hand a naked dagger of a
+particular construction, which had been found in the hut. They
+were soon met by different parties who had been engaged in the
+search of her whom a mother had missed. Their lamentable cries,
+as they approached the city, forewarned the parents of some
+dreadful catastrophe. ---To describe their grief would be
+impossible; but when they ascertained the cause of their child's
+death, they looked at Aubrey, and pointed to the corse. They were
+inconsolable; both died broken-hearted.</p>
+
+<p>Aubrey being put to bed was seized with a most violent fever,
+and was often delirious; in these intervals he would call upon
+Lord Ruthven and upon Ianthe---by some unaccountable combination
+he seemed to beg of his former companion to spare the being he
+loved. At other times he would imprecate maledictions upon his
+head, and curse him as her destroyer. Lord Ruthven, chanced at
+this time to arrive at Athens, and, from whatever motive, upon
+hearing of the state of Aubrey, immediately placed himself in the
+same house, and became his constant attendant. When the latter
+recovered from his delirium, he was horrified and startled at the
+sight of him whose image he had now combined with that of a
+Vampyre; but Lord Ruthven, by his kind words, implying almost
+repentance for the fault that had caused their separation, and
+still more by the attention, anxiety, and care which he showed,
+soon reconciled him to his presence. His lordship seemed quite
+changed; he no longer appeared that apathetic being who had so
+astonished Aubrey; but as soon as his convalescence began to be
+rapid, he again gradually retired into the same state of mind,
+and Aubrey perceived no difference from the former man, except
+that at times he was surprised to meet his gaze fixed intently
+upon him, with a smile of malicious exultation playing upon his
+lips: he knew not why, but this smile haunted him. During the
+last stage of the invalid's recovery, Lord Ruthven was apparently
+engaged in watching the tideless waves raised by the cooling
+breeze, or in marking the progress of those orbs, circling, like
+our world, the moveless sun;---indeed, he appeared to wish to
+avoid the eyes of all.</p>
+
+<p>Aubrey's mind, by this shock, was much weakened, and that
+elasticity of spirit which had once so distinguished him now
+seemed to have fled for ever. He was now as much a lover of
+solitude and silence as Lord Ruthven; but much as he wished for
+solitude, his mind could not find it in the neighbourhood of
+Athens; if he sought it amidst the ruins he had formerly
+frequented, Ianthe's form stood by his side---if he sought it in
+the woods, her light step would appear wandering amidst the
+underwood, in quest of the modest violet; then suddenly turning
+round, would show, to his wild imagination, her pale face and
+wounded throat, with a meek smile upon her lips. He determined to
+fly scenes, every feature of which created such bitter
+associations in his mind. He proposed to Lord Ruthven, to whom he
+held himself bound by the tender care he-had taken of him during
+his illness, that they should visit those parts of Greece neither
+had yet seen. They travelled in every direction, and sought every
+spot to which a recollection could be attached: but though they
+thus hastened from place to place, yet they seemed not to heed
+what they gazed upon. They heard much of robbers, but they
+gradually began to slight these reports, which they imagined were
+only the invention of individuals, whose interest it was to
+excite the generosity of those whom they defended from pretended
+dangers. In consequence of thus neglecting the advice of the
+inhabitants, on one occasion they travelled with only a few
+guards, more to serve as guides than as a defence. Upon entering,
+however, a narrow defile, at the bottom of which was the bed of a
+torrent, with large masses of rock brought down from the
+neighbouring precipices, they had reason to repent their
+negligence; for scarcely were tho whole of the party engaged in
+the narrow pass, when they were startled by the whistling of
+bullets close to their heads, and by the echoed report of several
+guns. In an instant their guards had left them, and, placing
+themselves behind rocks, had begun to fire in the direction
+whence the report came. Lord Ruthven and Aubrey, imitating their
+example, retired for a moment behind the sheltering turn of the
+defile: but ashamed of being thus detained by a foe, who with
+insulting shouts bade them advance, and being exposed to
+unresisting slaughter, if any of the robbers should climb above
+and take them in the rear, they determined at once to rush
+forward in search of the enemy. Hardly had they lost the shelter
+of the rock, when Lord Ruthven received a shot in the shoulder,
+which brought him to the ground. Aubrey hastened to his
+assistance; and, no longer heeding the contest or his own peril,
+was soon surprised by seeing the robbers' faces around him---his
+guards having, upon Lord Ruthven's being wounded, immediately
+thrown up their arms and surrendered.</p>
+
+<p>By promises of great reward, Aubrey soon induced them to
+convey his wounded friend to a neighbouring cabin; and having
+agreed upon a ransom, he was no more disturbed by their
+presence---they being content merely to guard the entrance till
+their comrade should return with the promised sum, for which he
+had an order. Lord Ruthven's strength rapidly decreased; in two
+days mortification ensued, and death seemed advancing with hasty
+steps. His conduct and appearance had not changed; he seemed as
+unconscious of pain as he had been of the objects about him: but
+towards the close of the last evening, his mind became apparently
+uneasy, and his eye often fixed upon Aubrey, who was induced to
+offer his assistance with more than usual
+earnestness&mdash;"Assist me! you may save me---you may do more
+than that---I mean not my life, I heed the death of my existence
+as little as that of the passing day; but you may save my honour,
+your friend's honour."---"How? tell me how? I would do any
+thing," replied Aubrey. ---"I need but little---my life ebbs
+apace---I cannot explain the whole---but if you would conceal all
+you know of me, my honour were free from stain in the world's
+mouth---and if my death were unknown for some time in
+England---I---I---but life."---" It shall not be known."---"Swear
+!" cried the dying man, raising himself with exultant violence, "
+Swear by all your soul reveres, by all your nature fears, swear
+that, for a year and a day you will not impart your knowledge of
+my crimes or death to any living being in any way, whatever may
+happen, or whatever you may see. "---His eyes seemed bursting
+from their sockets: " I swear !" said Aubrey; he sunk laughing
+upon his pillow, and breathed no more.</p>
+
+<p>Aubrey retired to rest, but did not sleep; the many
+circumstances attending his acquaintance with this man rose upon
+his mind, and he knew not why; when he remembered his oath a cold
+shivering came over him, as if from the presentiment of something
+horrible awaiting him. Rising early in the morning, he was about
+to enter the hovel in which he had left the corpse, when a robber
+met him, and informed him that it was no longer there, having
+been conveyed by himself and comrades, upon his retiring, to the
+pinnacle of a neighbouring mount, according to a promise they had
+given his lordship, that it should be exposed to the first cold
+ray of the moon that rose after his death. Aubrey astonished, and
+taking several of the men, determined to go and bury it upon the
+spot where it lay. But, when he had mounted to the summit he
+found no trace of either the corpse or the clothes, though the
+robbers swore they pointed out the identical rock: on which they
+had laid the body. For a time his mind was bewildered in
+conjectures, but he at last returned, convinced that they had
+buried the corpse for the sake of the clothes.</p>
+
+<p>Weary of a country in which he had met with such terrible
+misfortunes, and in which all apparently conspired to heighten
+that superstitious melancholy that had seized upon his mind, he
+resolved to leave it, and soon arrived at Smyrna. While waiting
+for a vessel to convey him to Otranto, or to Naples, he occupied
+himself in arranging those effects be had with him belonging to
+Lord Ruthven. Amongst other things there was a case containing
+several weapons of offence, more or less adapted to ensure the
+death of the victim. There were several daggers and ataghans.
+Whilst turning them over, and examining their curious forms, what
+was his surprise at finding a sheath apparently ornamented in the
+same style as the dagger discovered in the fatal hut---he
+shuddered---hastening to gain further proof, he found the weapon,
+and his horror may be imagined when he discovered that it fitted,
+though peculiarly shaped, the sheath he held in his hand. His
+eyes seemed to need no further certainty---they seemed gazing to
+be bound to the dagger; yet still he wished to disbelieve; but
+the particular form, the same varying tints upon the haft and
+sheath were alike in splendour on both, and left no room for
+doubt; there were also drops of blood on each.</p>
+
+<p>He left Smyrna, and on his way home, at Rome, his first
+inquiries were concerning the lady he had attempted to snatch
+from Lord Ruthven's seductive arts. Her parents were in distress,
+their fortune ruined, and she had not been heard of since the
+departure of his lordship. Aubrey's mind became almost broken
+under so many repeated horrors; he was afraid that this lady had
+fallen a victim to the destroyer of Ianthe. He became morose and
+silent; and his only occupation consisted in urging the speed of
+the postilions, as if he were going to save the life of some one
+he held dear. He arrived at Calais; a breeze, which seemed
+obedient to his will, soon wafted him to the English shores; and
+he hastened to the mansion of his fathers, and there, for a
+moment, appeared to lose, in the embraces and caresses of his
+sister, all memory of the past. If she before, by her infantine
+caresses, had gained his affection, now that the woman began to
+appear, she was still more attaching as a companion.</p>
+
+<p>Miss Aubrey had not that winning grace which gains the gaze
+and applause of the drawing-room assemblies. There was none of
+that light brilliancy which only exists in the heated atmosphere
+of a crowded apartment. Her blue eye was never lit up by the
+levity of the mind beneath. There was a melancholy charm about it
+which did not seem to arise from misfortune, but from some
+feeling within, that appeared to indicate a soul conscious of a
+brighter realm. Her step was not that light footing, which strays
+where'er a butterfly or a colour may attract---it was sedate and
+pensive. When alone, her face was never brightened by the smile
+of joy; but when her brother breathed to her his affection, and
+would in her presence forget those griefs she knew destroyed his
+rest, who would have exchanged her smile for that of the
+voluptuary? It seemed as if those eyes,---that face were then
+playing in the light of their own native sphere. She was yet only
+eighteen, and had not been presented to the world, it having been
+thought by her guardians more fit that her presentation should be
+delayed until her brother's return from the continent, when he
+might be her protector. It was now, therefore, resolved that the
+next drawing-room, which was fast approaching, should be the
+epoch of her entry into the "busy scene. " Aubrey would rather
+have remained in the mansion of his fathers, and fed upon the
+melancholy which overpowered him. He could not fed interest about
+the frivolities of fashionable strangers, when his mind had been
+so torn by the events he had witnessed; but he determined to
+sacrifice his own comfort to the protection of his sister. They
+soon arrived in town, and prepared for the next day, which had
+been announced as a drawing-room.</p>
+
+<p>The crowd was excessive---a drawing-room had not been held for
+a long time, and all who were anxious to bask in the smile of
+royalty, hastened thither. Aubrey was there with his sister.
+While he was standing in a corner by himself, heedless of all
+around him, engaged in the remembrance that the first time he had
+seen Lord Ruthven was in that very place---he felt himself
+suddenly seized by the arm, and a voice he recognized too well,
+sounded in his ear---" Remember your oath. " He had hardly
+courage to turn, fearful of seeing a spectre that would blast
+him, when he perceived, at a little distance, the same figure
+which had attracted his notice on this spot upon his first entry
+into society. He gazed till his limbs almost refusing to bear
+their weight, he was obliged to take the arm of a friend, and
+forcing a passage through the crowd, he threw himself into his
+carriage, and was driven home. He paced the room with hurried
+steps, and fixed his hands upon his head, as if he were afraid
+his thoughts were bursting from his brain. Lord Ruthven again
+before him---circumstances started up in dreadful array---the
+dagger---his oath.---He roused himself, he could not believe it
+possible---the dead rise again!---He thought his imagination had
+conjured up the image, his mind was resting upon. It was
+impossible that it could be real&mdash; ---he determined,
+therefore, to go again into society; for though he attempted to
+ask concerning Lord Ruthven, the name hung upon his lips, and he
+could not succeed in gaining information. He went a few nights
+after with lib sister to the assembly of a near relation. Leaving
+her under the protection of a matron, ho retired into a recess,
+and there gave himself up to his own devouring thoughts.
+Perceiving, at last, that many were leaving, he roused himself,
+and entering another room, found his sister surrounded by
+several, apparently in earnest conversation; he attempted to pass
+and get near her, when one, whom he requested to move, turned
+round, and revealed to him those features he most abhorred. He
+sprang forward, seized his sister's arm, and, with hurried step,
+forced her towards the street: at the door he found himself
+impeded by the crowd of servants who were waiting for their
+lords; and while he was engaged in passing them, he again heard
+that voice whisper close to him&mdash;"Remember your
+oath!"&mdash;He did not dare to turn, but, hurrying his sister,
+soon reached home.</p>
+
+<p>Aubrey became almost distracted. If before his mind had been
+absorbed by one subject, how much more completely was it
+engrossed, now that the certainty of the monster's living again
+pressed upon his thoughts. His sister's attentions were now
+unheeded, and it was in vain that she intreated him to explain to
+her what had caused his abrupt conduct. He only uttered a few
+words, and those terrified her. The more he thought, the more he
+was bewildered. His oath startled him;&mdash;was he then to allow
+this monster to roam, bearing ruin upon his breath, amidst all he
+held dear, and not avert its progress? His very sister might have
+been touched by him. But even if he were to break his oath, and
+disclose his suspicions, who would believe him? He thought of
+employing his own hand to free the world from such a wretch; but
+death, he remembered, had been already mocked. For days he
+remained in this state; shut up in his room, he saw no one, and
+eat only when his sister came, who, with eyes streaming with
+tears, besought him, for her sake, to support nature. At last, no
+longer capable of bearing stillness and solitude, he left his
+house, roamed from street to street, anxious to fly that image
+which haunted him. His dress became neglected, and he wandered,
+as often exposed to the noon-day sun as to the midnight damps. He
+was no longer to be recognized; at first he returned with the
+evening to the house; but at last he laid him down to rest
+wherever fatigue overtook him. His sister, anxious for his
+safety, employed people to follow him; but they were soon
+distanced by him who fled from a pursuer swifter than any---from
+thought. His conduct, however, suddenly changed. Struck with the
+idea that he left by his absence the whole of his friends, with a
+fiend amongst them, of whose presence they were unconscious, he
+determined to enter again into society, and watch him closely,
+anxious to forewarn, in spite of his oath, all whom Lord Ruthven
+approached with intimacy. But when he entered into a room, his
+haggard and suspicious looks were so striking, his inward
+shudderings so visible, that his sister was at last obliged to
+beg of him to abstain from seeking, for her sake, a society which
+affected him so strongly. When, however, remonstrance proved
+unavailing, the guardians thought proper to interpose, and,
+fearing that his mind was becoming alienated, they thought it
+high time to resume again that trust which had been before
+imposed upon them by Aubrey's parents.</p>
+
+<p>Desirous of saving him from the injuries and sufferings he had
+daily encountered in his wanderings, and of preventing him from
+exposing to the general eye those marks of what they considered
+folly, they engaged a physician to reside in the house, and take
+constant care of him. He hardly appeared to notice it, so
+completely was his mind absorbed by one terrible subject. His
+incoherence became at last so great, that he was confined to his
+chamber. There he would often lie for days, incapable of being
+roused. He had become emaciated, his eyes had attained a glassy
+lustre;---the only sign of affection and recollection remaining
+displayed itself upon the entry of his sister; then he would
+sometimes start, and, seizing her hands, with looks that severely
+affliced her, he would desire her not to touch him. " Oh, do not
+touch him---if your love for me is aught, do not go near him!"
+When, however, she inquired to whom he referred, his only answer
+was, "True! true! and again he sank into a state, whence not even
+she could rouse him. This lasted many months: gradually, however,
+as the year was passing, his incoherences became less frequent,
+and his mind threw off a portion of its gloom, whilst his
+guardians observed, that several times in the day he would count
+upon his fingers a definite number, and then smile.</p>
+
+<p>The time had nearly elapsed, when, upon the last day of the
+year, one of his guardians entering his room, began to converse
+with his physician upon the melancholy circumstance of Aubrey's
+being in so awful a situation, when his sister was going next day
+to be married. Instantly Aubrey's attention was attracted; he
+asked anxiously to whom. Glad of this mark of returning
+intellect, of which they feared he had been deprived, they
+mentioned the name of the Earl of Marsden. Thinking this was a
+young Earl whom he had met with in society, Aubrey seemed
+pleased, and astonished them still more by his expressing his
+intention to be present tit the nuptials, and desiring to see his
+sister. They answered not, but in a few minutes his sister was
+with him. He was apparently again capable of being affected by
+the influence of her lovely smile; for he pressed her to his
+breast, and kissed her check, wet with tears, flowing at the
+thought of her brother's being once more alive to the feelings of
+affection. He began to speak with all his wonted warmth, and to
+congratulate her upon her marriage with a person so distinguished
+for rank and every accomplishment; when he suddenly perceived a
+locket upon her breast; opening it, what was his surprise at
+beholding the features of the monster who had so long influenced
+his life. He seized the portrait in a paroxysm of rage, and
+trampled it under foot. Upon her asking him why he thus destroyed
+the resemblance of her future husband, he looked as if he did not
+understand her---then seizing her hands, and gazing on her with a
+frantic expression of countenance, he bade her swear that she
+would never wed this monster, for he----But he could not
+advance---it seemed as if that voice again bade him remember his
+oath---he turned suddenly round, thinking Lord Ruthven was near
+him but saw no one. In the meantime the guardians and physician,
+who had heard the whole, and thought this was but a return of his
+disorder, entered, and forcing him from Miss Aubrey, desired her
+to leave him. He fell upon his knees to them, he implored, he
+begged of them to delay but for one day. They, attributing this
+to the insanity they imagined had taken possession of his mind,
+endeavoured to pacify him, and retired.</p>
+
+<p>Lord Ruthven had called the morning after the drawing-room,
+and had been refused with every one else. When he heard of
+Aubrey's ill health, he readily understood himself to be the
+cause of it; but when he learned that he was deemed insane, his
+exultation and pleasure could hardly be concealed from those
+among whom he had gained this information. He hastened to the
+house of his former companion, and, by constant attendance, and
+the pretence of great affection for the brother and interest in
+his fate, he gradually won the car of Miss Aubrey. Who could
+resist his power? His tongue had dangers and toils to
+recount&mdash;could speak of himself as of an individual having
+no sympathy with any being on the crowded earth, save with her to
+whom he addressed himself;&mdash;could tell how, since he knew
+her, his existence, had begun to seem worthy of preservation, if
+it were merely that he might listen to her soothing
+accents;&mdash;in fine, he knew so well how to use the serpent's
+art, or such was the will of fate, that he gained her affections.
+The title of the elder branch falling at length to him, lie
+obtained an important embassy, which served as an excuse for
+hastening the marriage, (in spite of her brother's deranged
+state,) which was to take place the very day before his departure
+for the continent.</p>
+
+<p>Aubrey, when he was left by the physician and his guardians,
+attempted to bribe the servants, but in vain. He asked for pen
+and paper; it was given him; be wrote a letter to his sister,
+conjuring her, as she valued her own happiness, her own honour,
+and the honour of those now in the grave, who once held her in
+their arms as their hope and the hope of their house, to delay
+but for a few hours that marriage, on which he denounced the most
+heavy curses. The servants promised they would deliver it; but
+giving it to the physician, he thought it better not to harass
+any more the mind of Miss Aubrey by, what he considered, the
+ravings of a maniac. Night passed on without rest to the busy
+inmates of the house; and Aubrey heard, with a horror that may
+more easily be conceived than described, the notes of busy
+preparation. Morning came, and the sound of carriages broke upon
+his ear. Aubrey grew almost frantic. The curiosity of the
+servants at last overcame their vigilance, they gradually stole
+away, leaving him in the custody of an helpless old woman. He
+seized the opportunity, with one bound was out of the room, and
+in a moment found himself in the apartment where all were nearly
+assembled. Lord Ruthven was the first to perceive him: lie
+immediately approached, and, taking his arm by force, hurried him
+from the room, speechless with rage. When on the staircase, Lord
+Ruthven whispered in his ear&mdash;" Remember your oath, and
+know, if not my bride to day, your sister is dishonoured. Women
+are frail!" So saying, he pushed him towards his attendants, who,
+roused by the old woman, had come in search of him. Aubrey could
+no longer support himself; his rage not finding vent, had broken
+a blood-vessel, and he was conveyed to bed. This was not
+mentioned to his sister, who was not present when he entered, as
+the physician was afraid of agitating her. The marriage was
+solemnized, and the bride and bridegroom left London.</p>
+
+<p>Aubrey's weakness increased; the effusion of blood produced
+symptoms of the near approach of death. He desired his sister's
+guardians might be called, and when the midnight hour had struck,
+he related composedly what the reader has perused&mdash;he died
+immediately after.</p>
+
+<p>The guardians hastened to protect Miss Aubrey; but when they
+arrived, it was too late. Lord Ruthven had disappeared, and
+Aubrey's sister had glutted the thirst of a VAMPYRE!</p>
+
+<hr>
+<p align="center">EXTRACT OF A LETTER,</p>
+
+<p align="center"><font size="-1">CONTAINING AN
+ACCOUNT</font></p>
+
+<p align="center"><font size="-2">OF</font></p>
+
+<p align="center"><font size="+1">LORD BYRON'S
+RESIDENCE</font></p>
+
+<p align="center"><font size="-2">IN THE</font></p>
+
+<p align="center">ISLAND OF MITYLENE.</p>
+
+<hr>
+<p align="center">ACCOUNT</p>
+
+<p align="center"><font size="-2">OF</font></p>
+
+<p align="center"><font size="+1">LORD BYRON'S RESIDENCE,
+&amp;c.</font></p>
+
+<hr width="20%">
+<p align="center"><font size="-1">"The world was all before him,
+where to choose his place of rest, and Providence his
+guide."</font></p>
+
+<p>IN Sailing through the Grecian Archipelago, on board one of
+his Majesty's vessels, in the year 1812, we put into the harbour
+of Mitylene, in the island of that name. The beauty of this
+place, and the certain supply of cattle and vegetables always to
+be had there, induce many British vessels to visit it---both men
+of war and merchantmen; and though it lies rather out of the
+track for ships bound to Smyrna, its bounties amply repay for the
+deviation of a voyage. We landed; as usual, at the bottom of the
+bay, and whilst the men were employed in watering, and the purser
+bargaining for cattle with the natives, the clergyman and myself
+took a ramble to the cave called Homer's School, and other
+places, where we had been before. On the brow of Mount Ida (a
+small monticule so named) we met with and engaged a young Greek
+as our guide, who told us he had come from Scio with an English
+lord, who left the island four days previous to our arrival in
+his felucca. "He engaged me as a pilot, " said the Greek, " and
+would have taken me with him; but I did not choose to quit
+Mitylene, where I am likely to get married. He was an odd, but a
+very good man. The cottage over the hill, facing the river,
+belongs to him, and he has left an old man in charge of it: he
+gave Dominick, the wine-trader, six hundred zechines for it,
+(about 250<i>l</i>. English currency,) and has resided there
+about fourteen months, though not constantly; for he sails in his
+felucca very often to the different islands. "</p>
+
+<p>This account excited our curiosity very much, and we lost no
+time in hastening to the house where out countryman had resided.
+We were kindly received by an old man, who conducted us over the
+mansion. It consisted of four apartments on the ground-floor---an
+entrance hall, a drawing-room, a sitting parlour, and a bed-room,
+with a spacious closet annexed. They were all simply decorated:
+plain green-stained walls, marble tables on either side, a large
+myrtle in the centre, and a small fountain beneath, which could
+be made to play through the branches by moving a spring fixed in
+the side of a small bronze Venus in a leaning posture; a large
+couch or sofa completed the furniture. In the hall stood half a
+dozen English cane chairs, and an empty book-case: there were no
+mirrors, nor a single painting. The bedchamber had merely a large
+mattress spread on the floor, with two stuffed cotton quilts and
+a pillow---the common bed throughout Greece. In the sitting-room
+we observed a marble recess, formerly, the old man told us,
+filled with books and papers, which were then in a large seaman's
+chest in the closet: it was open, but we did not think ourselves
+justified in examining the contents. On the tablet of the recess
+lay Voltaire's, Shakspeare's, Boileau's, and Rousseau's works
+complete; Volney's Ruins of Empires; Zimmerman, in the German
+language; Klopstock's Messiah; Kotzebue's novels; Schiller's play
+of the Robbers; Milton's Paradise Lost, an Italian edition,
+printed at Parma in 1810; several small pamphlets from the Greek
+press at Constantinople, much torn, but no English book of any
+description. Most of these books were filled with marginal notes,
+written with a pencil, in Italian and Latin. The Messiah was
+literally scribbled all over, and marked with slips of paper, on
+which also were remarks.</p>
+
+<p>The old man said: " The lord had been reading these books the
+evening before he sailed, and forgot to place them with the
+others; but, " said he, " there they must lie until his return;
+for he is so particular, that were I to move one thing without
+orders, he would frown upon me for a week together; he is
+otherways very good. I once did him a service; and I have the
+produce of this farm for the trouble of taking care of it, except
+twenty zechines which I pay to an aged Armenian who resides in a
+small cottage in the wood, and whom the lord brought here from
+Adrianople; I don't know for what reason. "</p>
+
+<p>The appearance of the house externally was pleasing. The
+portico in front was fifty paces long and fourteen broad, and the
+fluted marble pillars with black plinths and fret-work cornices,
+(as it is now customary in Grecian architecture,) were
+considerably higher than the roof. The roof, surrounded by a
+light stone balustrade, was covered by a fine Turkey carpet,
+beneath an awning of strong coarse linen. Most of the house-tops
+are thus furnished, as upon them the Greeks pass their evenings
+in smoking, drinking light wines, such as " lachryma christi, "
+eating fruit, and enjoying the evening breeze.</p>
+
+<p>On the left hand as we entered the house, a small streamlet
+glided away, grapes, oranges and limes were clustering together
+on its borders, and under the shade of two large myrtle bushes, a
+marble scat with an ornamental wooden back was placed, on which
+we were told, the lord passed many of his evenings and nights
+till twelve o'clock, reading, writing, and talking to himself. "
+I suppose, " said the old man, "<i>praying</i>" for he was very
+devout, and always attended our church twice a week, besides
+Sundays. "</p>
+
+<p>The view from this seat was what may be termed " a bird's-eye
+view. " A line of rich vineyards led the eye to Mount Calcla,
+covered with olive and myrtle trees in bloom, and on the summit
+of which an ancient Greek temple appeared in majestic decay. A
+small stream issuing from the ruins descended in broken cascades,
+until it was lost in the woods near the mountain's base. The sea
+smooth as glass, and an horizon unshadowed by a single cloud,
+terminates the view in front; and a little on the left, through a
+vista of lofty chesnut and palm-trees, several small islands were
+distinctly observed, studding the light blue wave with spots of
+emerald green. I seldom enjoyed a view more than I did this; but
+our enquiries were fruitless as to the name of the person who had
+resided in this romantic solitude: none knew his name but
+Dominick, his banker, who had gone to Candia. " The Armenian, "
+said our conductor, " could tell, but I am sure he will
+not,"---"And cannot you tell, old friend?" said I---" If I can, "
+said he, " I dare not. " We had not time to visit the Armenian,
+but on our return to the town we learnt several particulars of
+the isolated lord. He had portioned eight young girls when he was
+last upon the island, and even <i>danced</i> with them at the
+nuptial feast. He gave a cow to one man, horses to others, and
+cotton and silk to the girls who live by weaving these articles.
+He also bought a new boat for a fisherman who had lost his own in
+a gale, and he often gave Greek Testaments to the poor children.
+In short, he appeared to us, from all we collected, to have been
+a very eccentric and benevolent character. One circumstance we
+learnt, which our old friend at the cottage thought proper not to
+disclose. He had a most beautiful daughter, with whom the lord
+was often seen walking on the sea-shore, and he had bought her a
+piano-forte, and taught her himself the use of it.</p>
+
+<p>Such was the information with which we departed from the
+peaceful isle of Mitylene; our imaginations all on the rack,
+guessing who this rambler in Greece could be. He had money it was
+evident: he had philanthropy of disposition, and all those
+eccentricities which mark peculiar genius. Arrived at Palermo,
+all our doubts were dispelled. Falling in company with Mr.
+FOSTER, the architect, a pupil of WYATT'S, who had been
+travelling in Egypt and Greece, " The individual, " said he, "
+about whom you are so anxious, is Lord Byron; I met him in my
+travels on the island of Tenedos, and I also visited him at
+Mitylene. " We had never then heard of his lordship's fame, as we
+had been some years from home; but "Childe Harolde" being put
+into our hands we recognized the recluse of Calcla in every page.
+Deeply did we regret not having been more curious in our
+researches at the cottage, but we consoled ourselves with the
+idea of returning to Mitylene on some future day; but to me that
+day will never return. I make this statement, believing it not
+quite uninteresting, and in justice to his lordship's good name,
+which has been grossly slandered. He has been described as of an
+unfeeling disposition, averse to associating with human nature,
+or contributing in any way to sooth its sorrows, or add to its
+pleasures. The fact is directly the reverse, as may be plainly
+gathered from these little anecdotes. All the finer feelings of
+the heart, so elegantly depicted in his lordship's poems, seem to
+have their seat in his bosom. Tenderness, sympathy, and charity
+appear to guide all his actions: and his courting the repose of
+solitude is an additional reason for marking him as a being on
+whose heart Religion hath set her seal, and over whose head
+Benevolence hath thrown her mantle. No man can read the preceding
+pleasing "traits" without feeling proud of him as a countryman.
+With respect to his loves or pleasures, I do not assume a right
+to give an opinion. Reports are ever to be received with caution,
+particularly when directed against man's moral integrity; and he
+who dares justify himself before that awful tribunal where all
+must appear, alone may censure the errors of a fellow-mortal.
+Lord Byron's character is worthy of his genius. To do good in
+secret, and shun the world's applause, is the surest testimony of
+a virtuous heart and self-approving conscience.</p>
+
+<p align="center"><font size="-1">THE END</font></p>
+
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