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TALES
OF
THE GROTESQUE AND ARABESQUE.
MORELLA.
Αυτο καθ' αυτο μεθ' αυτου, μονο ειδες αιει ον·
Itself, alone by itself, eternally one, and single.
Plato. Sympos.
With a feeling of deep yet most singular affection I regarded my friend Morella. Thrown by accident into her society many years ago, my soul, from our first meeting, burned with fires it had never before known; but the fires were not of Eros; and bitter and tormenting to my spirit was the gradual conviction that I could in no manner define their unusual meaning, or regulate their vague intensity. Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the altar; and I
