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The
murderous
mark
of
the
fiend
's
grasp
was
on
her
neck
,
and
the
breath
had
ceased
to
issue
from
her
lips
.
While
I
still
hung
over
her
in
the
agony
of
despair
,
I
happened
to
look
up
.
The
windows
of
the
room
had
before
been
darkened
,
and
I
felt
a
kind
of
panic
on
seeing
the
pale
yellow
light
of
the
moon
illuminate
the
chamber
.
The
shutters
had
been
thrown
back
,
and
with
a
sensation
of
horror
not
to
be
described
,
I
saw
at
the
open
window
a
figure
the
most
hideous
and
abhorred
.
A
grin
was
on
the
face
of
the
monster
;
he
seemed
to
jeer
,
as
with
his
fiendish
finger
he
pointed
towards
the
corpse
of
my
wife
.
I
rushed
towards
the
window
,
and
drawing
a
pistol
from
my
bosom
,
fired
;
but
he
eluded
me
,
leaped
from
his
station
,
and
running
with
the
swiftness
of
lightning
,
plunged
into
the
lake
.
The
report
of
the
pistol
brought
a
crowd
into
the
room
.
I
pointed
to
the
spot
where
he
had
disappeared
,
and
we
followed
the
track
with
boats
;
nets
were
cast
,
but
in
vain
.
After
passing
several
hours
,
we
returned
hopeless
,
most
of
my
companions
believing
it
to
have
been
a
form
conjured
up
by
my
fancy
.
After
having
landed
,
they
proceeded
to
search
the
country
,
parties
going
in
different
directions
among
the
woods
and
vines
.
I
attempted
to
accompany
them
and
proceeded
a
short
distance
from
the
house
,
but
my
head
whirled
round
,
my
steps
were
like
those
of
a
drunken
man
,
I
fell
at
last
in
a
state
of
utter
exhaustion
;
a
film
covered
my
eyes
,
and
my
skin
was
parched
with
the
heat
of
fever
.
In
this
state
I
was
carried
back
and
placed
on
a
bed
,
hardly
conscious
of
what
had
happened
;
my
eyes
wandered
round
the
room
as
if
to
seek
something
that
I
had
lost
.
After
an
interval
I
arose
,
and
as
if
by
instinct
,
crawled
into
the
room
where
the
corpse
of
my
beloved
lay
.
There
were
women
weeping
around
;
I
hung
over
it
and
joined
my
sad
tears
to
theirs
;
all
this
time
no
distinct
idea
presented
itself
to
my
mind
,
but
my
thoughts
rambled
to
various
subjects
,
reflecting
confusedly
on
my
misfortunes
and
their
cause
.
I
was
bewildered
,
in
a
cloud
of
wonder
and
horror
.
The
death
of
William
,
the
execution
of
Justine
,
the
murder
of
Clerval
,
and
lastly
of
my
wife
;
even
at
that
moment
I
knew
not
that
my
only
remaining
friends
were
safe
from
the
malignity
of
the
fiend
;
my
father
even
now
might
be
writhing
under
his
grasp
,
and
Ernest
might
be
dead
at
his
feet
.
This
idea
made
me
shudder
and
recalled
me
to
action
.
I
started
up
and
resolved
to
return
to
Geneva
with
all
possible
speed
.
There
were
no
horses
to
be
procured
,
and
I
must
return
by
the
lake
;
but
the
wind
was
unfavourable
,
and
the
rain
fell
in
torrents
.
However
,
it
was
hardly
morning
,
and
I
might
reasonably
hope
to
arrive
by
night
.
I
hired
men
to
row
and
took
an
oar
myself
,
for
I
had
always
experienced
relief
from
mental
torment
in
bodily
exercise
.
But
the
overflowing
misery
I
now
felt
,
and
the
excess
of
agitation
that
I
endured
rendered
me
incapable
of
any
exertion
.
I
threw
down
the
oar
,
and
leaning
my
head
upon
my
hands
,
gave
way
to
every
gloomy
idea
that
arose
.
If
I
looked
up
,
I
saw
scenes
which
were
familiar
to
me
in
my
happier
time
and
which
I
had
contemplated
but
the
day
before
in
the
company
of
her
who
was
now
but
a
shadow
and
a
recollection
.
Tears
streamed
from
my
eyes
.
The
rain
had
ceased
for
a
moment
,
and
I
saw
the
fish
play
in
the
waters
as
they
had
done
a
few
hours
before
;
they
had
then
been
observed
by
Elizabeth
.
Nothing
is
so
painful
to
the
human
mind
as
a
great
and
sudden
change
.
The
sun
might
shine
or
the
clouds
might
lower
,
but
nothing
could
appear
to
me
as
it
had
done
the
day
before
.
A
fiend
had
snatched
from
me
every
hope
of
future
happiness
;
no
creature
had
ever
been
so
miserable
as
I
was
;
so
frightful
an
event
is
single
in
the
history
of
man
.
But
why
should
I
dwell
upon
the
incidents
that
followed
this
last
overwhelming
event
?
Mine
has
been
a
tale
of
horrors
;
I
have
reached
their
acme
,
and
what
I
must
now
relate
can
but
be
tedious
to
you
.
Know
that
,
one
by
one
,
my
friends
were
snatched
away
;
I
was
left
desolate
.
My
own
strength
is
exhausted
,
and
I
must
tell
,
in
a
few
words
,
what
remains
of
my
hideous
narration
.
I
arrived
at
Geneva
.
My
father
and
Ernest
yet
lived
,
but
the
former
sunk
under
the
tidings
that
I
bore
.
I
see
him
now
,
excellent
and
venerable
old
man
!
His
eyes
wandered
in
vacancy
,
for
they
had
lost
their
charm
and
their
delight
--
his
Elizabeth
,
his
more
than
daughter
,
whom
he
doted
on
with
all
that
affection
which
a
man
feels
,
who
in
the
decline
of
life
,
having
few
affections
,
clings
more
earnestly
to
those
that
remain
.
Cursed
,
cursed
be
the
fiend
that
brought
misery
on
his
grey
hairs
and
doomed
him
to
waste
in
wretchedness
!
He
could
not
live
under
the
horrors
that
were
accumulated
around
him
;
the
springs
of
existence
suddenly
gave
way
;
he
was
unable
to
rise
from
his
bed
,
and
in
a
few
days
he
died
in
my
arms
.
What
then
became
of
me
?
I
know
not
;
I
lost
sensation
,
and
chains
and
darkness
were
the
only
objects
that
pressed
upon
me
.
Sometimes
,
indeed
,
I
dreamt
that
I
wandered
in
flowery
meadows
and
pleasant
vales
with
the
friends
of
my
youth
,
but
I
awoke
and
found
myself
in
a
dungeon
.
Melancholy
followed
,
but
by
degrees
I
gained
a
clear
conception
of
my
miseries
and
situation
and
was
then
released
from
my
prison
.
For
they
had
called
me
mad
,
and
during
many
months
,
as
I
understood
,
a
solitary
cell
had
been
my
habitation
.
Liberty
,
however
,
had
been
a
useless
gift
to
me
,
had
I
not
,
as
I
awakened
to
reason
,
at
the
same
time
awakened
to
revenge
.
As
the
memory
of
past
misfortunes
pressed
upon
me
,
I
began
to
reflect
on
their
cause
--
the
monster
whom
I
had
created
,
the
miserable
daemon
whom
I
had
sent
abroad
into
the
world
for
my
destruction
.
I
was
possessed
by
a
maddening
rage
when
I
thought
of
him
,
and
desired
and
ardently
prayed
that
I
might
have
him
within
my
grasp
to
wreak
a
great
and
signal
revenge
on
his
cursed
head
.
Nor
did
my
hate
long
confine
itself
to
useless
wishes
;
I
began
to
reflect
on
the
best
means
of
securing
him
;
and
for
this
purpose
,
about
a
month
after
my
release
,
I
repaired
to
a
criminal
judge
in
the
town
and
told
him
that
I
had
an
accusation
to
make
,
that
I
knew
the
destroyer
of
my
family
,
and
that
I
required
him
to
exert
his
whole
authority
for
the
apprehension
of
the
murderer
.
The
magistrate
listened
to
me
with
attention
and
kindness
.
