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"She appeared to take pleasure in foiling my curiosity and in seeing me flounder, in my eager perplexity, from one conjecture to another."

sounds like lestat and armand hehe

"Availing herself of the privilege of her mask, she turned to me and, in the tone of an old friend and calling me by name, opened a conversation with me. It piqued my curiosity a good deal. She alluded to little incidents I had long forgotten, but for which, I found, had only lain dormant in my memory, for they instantly started into life at her touch."

"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 devotion to me and repaid my care by an affection that cheered my home and made my life happy.
I hope to deliver the vengeance of heaven upon the fiends who have murdered my poor child in the spring of her hopes and beauty.'"

"You saw my dear ward--my child, I may call her. No creature could have been more beautiful than, and only three months none more blooming."

"The castle is a ruin; the village is deserted; it is fifty years since the smoke of a chimney was seen there. There if not a roof left."

"'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. Things that I myself would have doubted a few months ago.'"

"'You are right in supposing that I have not been led lightly into a belief in the marvelous--for what I have experienced is marvelous--and I have been forced my extraordinary evidence to credit that which ran counter to all my theories. I have been made the dupe of an otherworldly conspiracy.'"

"The interpretation did not sit well with me. I fancied--perhaps luckily for my nerves--the arrangement was prescribed simply to secure a companion who would prevent my taking too much exercise or eating unripe fruit or doing any of the fifty foolish things to which young people are supposed to be prone."

"'And how, Papa, do you account for her finding herself on the sofa in the dressing room, which we had searched so carefully?' I said.
'She came there after you had searched it, still in her sleep, and at last awoke spontaneously and was as much surprised to find herself where she was as anyone else. I wish all mysteries were as easily and innocently explained as yours, Carmilla.'"

"'Will you forgive me, my dear, if I risk a conjecture and ask a question?'
'Who can have a better right?' she said. 'Ask what you please, and I will tell you everything. But my story is simply one of bewilderment and darkness. I know absolutely nothing. Put any questions you please.'"