It wants two hours of midnight.

Before midnight I will be with you." "Incomprehensible being!" replied the Englishman, "I would leave the life you have preserved in your own hands; but what I have seen this night has swept even Viola from my thoughts.

A fiercer desire than that of love burns in my veins,--the desire not to resemble but to surpass my kind; the desire to penetrate and to share the secret of your own existence--the desire of a preternatural knowledge and unearthly power.
I make my choice.

In my ancestor's name, I adjure and remind thee of thy pledge.

Instruct me; school me; make me thine; and I surrender to thee at once, and without a murmur, the woman whom, till I saw thee, I would have defied a world to obtain." "I bid thee consider well: on the one hand, Viola, a tranquil home, a happy and serene life; on the other hand, all is darkness,--darkness, that even these eyes cannot penetrate." "But thou hast told me, that if I wed Viola, I must be contented with the common existence,--if I refuse, it is to aspire to thy knowledge and thy power." "Vain man, knowledge and power are not happiness." "But they are better than happiness.