Eight or nine hundred a year does wonders. A small income, in that part of the world, goes a great way. In Styria, we, though by no means magnificent people, inhabit a castle, or schloss. She, probably, could have added little to the narrative which she communicates in the following pages, with, so far as I can pronounce, such conscientious particularity. Much to my regret, however, I found that she had died in the interval. I was anxious on discovering this paper, to reopen the correspondence commenced by Doctor Hesselius, so many years before, with a person so clever and careful as his informant seems to have been. It will form but one volume of the series of that extraordinary man’s collected papers.Īs I publish the case, in this volume, simply to interest the laity, I shall forestall the intelligent lady, who relates it, in nothing and after due consideration, I have determined, therefore, to abstain from presenting any précis of the learned Doctor’s reasoning, or extract from his statement on a subject which he describes as involving, not improbably, some of the profoundest arcana of our dual existence, and its intermediates. This mysterious subject he treats, in that essay, with his usual learning and acumen, and with remarkable directness and condensation. Upon a paper attached to the narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his essay on the strange subject which the manuscript illuminates.

Carmilla by j sheridan le fanu