4/15 Take me from his hideous presence, Charles." "The young lady, I fear, is very much indisposed," remarked Sir Francis Varney, in a sympathetic tone of voice. "If she will accept of my arm, I shall esteem it a great honour." "No--no--no!--God! no," cried Flora. That man most certainly has been fashioned after the portrait which is on the panel in the room you formerly occupied; or it has been painted from him." "He is my midnight visitor!" exclaimed Flora. "He is the vampyre;--this Sir Francis Varney is the vampyre." "Good God! What can be done ?" "I know not. |