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"My poor girl did so. I had never say anyone more taken with another at first sight, unless, indeed, it was the stranger herself, who seemed quite to have lost her heart to her."

"The young stranger lowered her mask, displaying a remarkably beautiful face. I had never seen it before; neither had my dear child. But though it was new to us, the features were so engaging, as well as lovely, that it was impossible not to feel the attraction powerfully."

"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.'"

"'You believe in nothing but what consists with 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.'"