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"The maquis was about to return, when the figure rising, stood some moments fixed in meditation, without regarding him. The marquis, expecting the holy person to come forth, and meaning to excuse his uncivil interruption, said, Reverend father, I sought the lady Hippolita. --Hippolita! replied a hollow voice: camest thou to this castle to seek Hippolita? -- And then the figure, turning slowly round, discovered to Fredric the fleshless jaws and empty sockets of a skeleton, wrapt in a hermit's cowl."
- Excerpt from Horace Walpole's "Castle of Otranto" 1764 |
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