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"The Masque of Klosterheim was enabled to replace himself in his patrimonial rights, and at the same time to liberate from a growing oppression his own compatriots and subjects."

What a beautiful ending

"The last prayer was prayed, the last handful of earth was heaped upon the grave. They arose, and the stranger was no longer there, but where she had knelt a silver spring burst from the sward, that gently flowed and flowed till it surrounded the tomb."

Ugh, might be my favourite excerpt so far (which is crazy bc my beloved Shelley and Poe have featured here)

"Just then the old clock on the mantelpiece struck the midnight hour. The spirit of Marshal Blücher had quietly passed away."

What sights of horror might present themselves if it were entered! Satan is the ultimus hæres of all such unclaimed property!

When they communicated the circumstances of the confession to Powleska, she said, “I was told it last night.”

But through the long years that have elapsed since that memorable summer's day, I have never for a moment wavered in my belief that, in the mysterious horseman, I had a special interference of Providence, by which means I was delivered from a position of extreme danger.

"In a moment she knew it was herself and that she was dead. Struggling to make some sound, she gave a shriek, fell face downwards on the floor, and woke up."

"They assured me that, previous to that fatal expedition into the forest, he had been a hale, hearty man, totally exempt from superstitious fancies of any sort; and, in short, wholly devoted to advancing his worldly prosperity and getting money."

Mood

When the noises could be endured no longer, the room was stoutly walled up, and inside sit Earl Beardie and his partner playing cards till the crack of doom.

Against the new masonry I re - erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat!