Yet if not from her, from whom could it come?
Are the circumstances attending the imparting of this news proof that the tidings are true?
God forbid that they should be true." Here Pleyel sunk into anxious silence, and gave me leisure to ruminate on this inexplicable event.

I am at a loss to describe the sensations that affected me.

I am not fearful of shadows.

The tales of apparitions and enchantments did not possess that power over my belief which could even render them interesting.

I saw nothing in them but ignorance and folly, and was a stranger even to that terror which is pleasing.