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hi and welcome back to story time with
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me
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natasha negovanlis reading joseph
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chardon le fa news gothic vampire
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novella
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carmilla chapter 13 the woodmen
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there soon however appeared some
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drawbacks
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in the first place malarka complained of
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extreme anger
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the weakness that remained after her
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late illness
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and she never emerged from her room till
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the afternoon was pretty far advanced
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in the next place it was accidentally
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discovered
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although she had always locked the door
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on the inside and never disturbed the
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key from its place till she admitted the
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maid to assist at her toilet
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that she was undoubtedly sometimes
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absent from her room in the very
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early morning and at various times later
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in the day before she wished it to be
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understood that she was stirring
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she was repeatedly seen from the windows
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of the schloss
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in the first faint gray of the morning
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walking through the trees in an easterly
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direction
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and looking like a person in a trance
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this convinced me that she walked in her
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sleep
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but this hypothesis did not solve the
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puzzle
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how did she pass out from her room
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leaving the door locked on the inside
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how did she escape from the house
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without unbarring
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door or window in the midst of my
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perplexities an anxiety of a far more
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urgent kind presented itself
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my dear child began to lose her looks
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and health
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and that in a manner so mysterious and
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even horrible that i became
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thoroughly frightened she was at first
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visited by appalling dreams
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then as she fancied by a specter
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sometimes resembling
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malarka sometimes in the shape of a
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beast
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indistinctly seen walking around the
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foot of her bed from side to side
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lastly came sensations one not
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unpleasant but very peculiar she said
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resembled the flow of an icy stream
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against her breast
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and at a later time she felt something
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like a pair of large needles pierce her
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a little below the throat with a very
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sharp pain
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a few nights after followed a gradual
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and convulsive sense of strangulation
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then came unconsciousness i could hear
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distinctly every word the kindle general
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was saying because by this time we were
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driving upon
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the short grass that spreads on either
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side of the road as you approach the
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ruthless village which had not shown the
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smoke of a chimney for more than half a
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century
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you may guess how strangely i felt as i
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heard my own symptoms so exactly
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described in those which had been
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experienced by the poor girl
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who but for the catastrophe which
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followed would have
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at that moment been a visitor at my
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father's chateau
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you may suppose also how i felt as i
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heard him detail
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habits and mysterious peculiarities
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which were in fact those of our
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beautiful guest carmilla
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a vista opened in the forest we were on
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a sudden
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under the chimneys and gables of the
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ruined village
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and the towers and battlements of the
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dismantled castle round which
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gigantic trees are grouped overhung
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us from a slight eminence in a
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frightened dream i got down from the
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carriage
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and in silence for we had each abundant
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matter for thinking
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we soon mounted the ascent and were
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among the spacious
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chambers winding stairs and dark
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corridors of the castle
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and this was once the palatal residence
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of the
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carnsteins said the old general at
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length as
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from a great window he looked out to
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cross the village and saw the wide
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undulating expanse of forest it was a
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bad
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family and here it's blood-stained
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annals were written
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he continued it is hard that they should
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after death continue to plague the human
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race with their atrocious
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lusts that is the chapel of the
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constines down there
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he pointed down to the grey walls of the
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gothic building
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partly visible through the foliage a
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little way down the steep
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and i hear the axe of a woodman he added
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busy among the trees that surround it
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he possibly may give us the information
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of which i am in search
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and point out the grave of mercalla
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countess of konstein
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these rustics preserve the local
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traditions of great families whose
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stories die out among the rich
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entitled so soon as the families
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themselves become
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extinct we have a portrait at home of
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mercalla the countess karnstein should
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you like to see it ask my father
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time enough dear friend replied the
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general i believe that i have seen the
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original
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and one motive which has led me to you
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earlier than i
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at first intended was to explore the
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chapel which we are now approaching
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what see countess mercalla exclaimed my
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father
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why she has been dead for more than a
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century not so dead as you fancy i am
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told
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answered the general i confess general
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you puzzle me utterly replied my father
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looking at him i fancied for a moment
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with the return of the suspicion i
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detected before
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but although there was anger and
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detestation at times in the old
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general's manner
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there was nothing flighty there remains
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to me he said
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as we passed under the heavy arch of the
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gothic church
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for its dimensions would have justified
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it being so styled
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but one object which can interest me
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during the few years that remained to me
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on earth
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and that is to wreak on her the
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vengeance which i think god may still be
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accomplished by a mortal arm
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what vengeance can you mean asked my
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father in increasing amazement
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i mean to decapitate the monster he
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answered with a fierce flush and a stamp
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that echoed mournfully through the
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hollow ruin
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and his clenched hand was at the same
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moment rays as if it grasped the handle
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of an axe
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while he shook it ferociously in the air
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what exclaimed my father more than
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ever bewildered just drag her head off
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cut her head off
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i with a hatchet with a spade or with
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anything that can cleave through her
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murderous throat you shall hear he
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answered
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trembling with rage and hurrying forward
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he said
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that beam will answer for a seat your
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dear child is fatigued
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let her be seated and i will in a few
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sentences close my dreadful story
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that was guys quite the storyteller
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going on and on
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the squared block of wood which lay on
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the grass-grown pavement of the chapel
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formed a bench on which i was very glad
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to see
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myself and in the meantime the general
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called to the woodmen
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who had been removing some boughs which
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leaned against the old walls and axe in
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hand
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the hardy old fellow stood before us
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he could not tell us anything of these
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monuments but there was an old man he
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said
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a ranger of this forest at present
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sojourning in the house of the priest
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about two miles away
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who could point out every monument of
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the old karnstein family
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and for a trifle he undertook to
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bring him back with him if we would lend
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him one of our horses
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in a little more than half an hour have
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you been long employed about this forest
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ask my father of the old man i
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have been a woodman here he answered
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under the
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forester all my days so has my father
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before me
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and so on as many generations as i can
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count up
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i could show you the very house in the
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village here in which my ancestors lived
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how came the village to be deserted
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asked the general it was troubled by
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revenant sir
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several were tracked their graves
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they're detected by the usual tests and
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extinguished in the usual way by
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decapitation
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by the stake and by burning
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but not until many of the villagers were
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killed
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but after all these proceedings
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according to the law he continued
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so many graves opened and so many
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vampires deprived of their horrible
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the village was not relieved but a
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morovian nobleman
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who happened to be traveling this way
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heard how matters were and being skilled
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as many people are in his country
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in such affairs he offered to deliver
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the village from its tormentor
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he did so thus there being a bright moon
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that night he ascended shortly after
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sunset
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the towers of the chapel here from
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whence he could distinctly see the
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churchyard beneath him
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you can see it from that window from
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this point he watched until he saw the
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vampire come out of his grave
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and placed near it the linen cloths in
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which he had
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been folded and then glide away towards
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the village to plague its inhabitants
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the stranger having seen all this came
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down from the steeple took the linen
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wrapping of the vampire
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and carried them up to the top of the
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tower which he again mounted
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when the vampire returned from his
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prowlings and missed his clothes
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he cried furiously to the morovian whom
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he saw at the summit of the tower
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and who in reply beckoned him to ascend
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and take them
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whereupon the vampire accepting his
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invitation
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began to climb the steeple and so soon
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as he reached the battlements
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the morovian with a stroke of his sword
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clove his skull and twain
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hurling him down to the churchyard
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wither descending by the winding stairs
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the stranger followed and cut his head
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off and
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next day delivered it and the body to
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the villagers
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who dully impaled and burnt them this
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morovian nobleman had authority
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from the then head of the family to
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remove the tomb
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of mercallah countess karnstein which he
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did
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effectually so that in a little while
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its sight
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was quite forgotten can you point out
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where it stood asked the general eagerly
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the forester shook his head and smiled
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not a soul living could tell you that
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now he said besides they say her body
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was removed
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but no one's sure of that either having
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thus spoken
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as time pressed he dropped his axe and
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departed
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leaving us to hear the remainder of the
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general's
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strange story
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you
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