the witch's vengeance, part 2

look upon me as a lost and abandoned creature like a leaf blown in the wind a spark glimmered in the fireplace all his insolence was gone a traitor to good feeling and honour with a desperate melancholy truly a lost and abandoned creature bereft of all high born dignity the very picture of melancholy such is female curiosity and vengefulness the loss of good feeling and honor a light glimmered outside the window with a melancholy glow she despised him utterly as weak as a starved rat the dark prophecies had come to pass such is the wrath of woman like the wind in the trees may you renounce me from that moment the rat ran from the corner insolently surrendering itself i scorn you utterly in your pathetic disguise "thus ends a once proud race" the prophecies have come to pass recognized in spite of your disguise a light glimmered in the window behind her sources: castle of otranto; mysteries of udolpho; a sicilian romance; the old english baron; the monk; emmeline, or the orphan of the castle; melmoth the wanderer; frankenstein; the vampyre, by john polidori; lady audley's secret; run to earth, by mary e braddon; the moonstone; no name.