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in a low sepulchral voice, she pronounced the following words:
"Raymond! Raymond! Thou art mine!
"Raymond! Raymond! I am thine!
"In thy veins while blood shall roll,
"I am thine!
"Thou art mine!
"Mine thy body! Mine thy soul!———
"Raymond! Raymond! I am thine!
"In thy veins while blood shall roll,
"I am thine!
"Thou art mine!
"Mine thy body! Mine thy soul!———
Breathless with fear, I listened while she repeated my own expressions. The apparition seated herself opposite to me at the foot of the bed, and was silent. Her eyes were fixed earnestly upon mine: they seemed endowed with the property of the rattlesnake's, for I strove in vain to look off her. My eyes were fascinated, and I had not the power of withdrawing them from the spectre's.
In this attitude she remained for a whole long hour without speaking or moving; nor was I able to do either. At length the clock struck two. The apparition rose from her seat, and approached the side of the bed. She grasped with her icy fingersmy
