All language subtitles for Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu Chapter 10 Bereaved Read by Natasha Negovanlis.eng.eng

hi and welcome back to quarantine story

time with me

natasha negovanlis reading joseph

sheridan le fanu's

vampire novella carmilla now we're on to

chapter 10.

bereaved it was about 10 months since we

had last seen him but

that time had sufficed to make an

alteration of years in his appearance

he had grown thinner something of gloom

and anxiety had taken the place of that

cordial serenity which used to

characterize his features

his dark blue eyes always penetrating

now gleamed with a sterner light from

under his shaggy grey eyebrows

it was not such a change as grief alone

usually induces

and angrier passions seem to have had

their share in bringing it about

we've not long resumed our drive when

the general began to talk with his usual

soldierly directness

of the bereavement as he termed it which

he had sustained in the death of his

beloved niece and ward

and he then broke out in a tone of

intense bitterness and fury

invading against the hellish arts to

which she had fallen a victim

and expressing with more exasperation

than piety

his wonder that heaven should tolerate

so monstrous an indulgence of the lusts

and malignity of hell

my father who saw at once at something

very extraordinary had befallen

asked him if not too painful to him to

detail the circumstances which he

thought justified the strong terms in

which he expressed himself

well i shall tell you all with pleasure

said the general but you would not

believe me

why should i not he asked because

he answered testily you believe in

nothing but want consists of your own

prejudices and illusions

i remember when i was like you but i

have learned better

try me said my father i am not such a

dogmatist

as you suppose besides which i very well

know that you generally require proof

for what you believe

and am therefore very strongly

predisposed to respect your conclusions

you are right in supposing that i've not

been led lightly

into a belief in the marvelous for what

i have experienced

is marvelous and i have been forced by

extraordinary evidence to credit that

which ran counter

diametrically to all my theories i have

been made the dupe of a preacher natural

conspiracy

notwithstanding his professions of

confidence in the general's penetration

i saw my father at this point glance at

the general with

as i thought a marked suspicion of his

sanity

the general did not see it luckily he

was looking gloomily and curiously into

the glades and vistas of the woods that

were opening before us

you are going to the ruins of konstein

he said

yes it is a lucky coincidence do you

know i was going to

ask you to bring me there to inspect

them

i have a special object in exploring

there is a ruined chapel ain't there

with a great many tombs of that extinct

family

so there are highly interesting said my

father

i hope you are thinking of claiming the

title and estates

my father said this gaily but the

general did not recollect the laught or

even the smile

which courtesy exacts for a friend's

joke on the contrary he looked

grave and even fierce ruminating on a

matter that stirred his anger and horror

something very different he said gruffly

i mean to unearth some of those fine

people

i hope by god's blessing to accomplish a

pious sacrilege here which will relieve

our

earth of certain monsters and enable

honest people to sleep in their beds

without being assailed by

murderers i have strange things to tell

you my dear friend

such as myself would have scouted as

incredible

a few months since my father looked at

him again but this time not with a

glance of suspicion

with an eye rather of keen intelligence

and alarm

the host of kornstein he said has been

long extinct a hundred years at least

my dear wife was maternally descended

from the constins

but the name and title have long ceased

to exist

the castle is a ruin the very village is

deserted it is 50 years since the smoke

of a chimney was seen there

not a roof left quite true i have heard

a great deal about that since i last saw

you

a great deal that will astonish you but

i had better relate everything

in the order in which it occurred said

the general you saw my dear ward

my child i may call her no creature

could have been more

beautiful and only three months ago none

more blooming

yes poor thing when i saw her last she

certainly was quite lovely said my

father

i was grieved and shocked more than i

can tell you my dear friend

i knew what a blow it was to you he took

the general's hand and they exchanged a

kind pressure

tears gathered in the old soldier's eyes

he did not seek to conceal them

he said we have been very old friends

i knew you would feel for me childless

as i am

she had become an object of very near

interest to me

and repaid my care by an affection that

cheered my home and made my life happy

that is all gone the years that remain

to me on earth may not be

very long but by god's mercy i hope to

accomplish a service to mankind before i

die and to subserve the vengeance of

heaven upon the fiends who have murdered

my poor

child in the spring of her hopes and

beauty

you said just now that you intended

relating everything as it occurred said

my father

pray do i assure you that it is not mere

curiosity that prompts me

by this time we had reached the point at

which the drone stall road

by which the general had gone diverges

from the road which we were traveling to

karnstein

how far is it to the ruins inquired the

general looking anxiously forward

about half a league answered my father

pray

let us hear the story you were so good

as to promise

and that's chapter 10 stay tuned

for chapter 11.

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