Horace Walpole

a gothic story

The Castle of Otranto

Abigail Mills

The next transition of his soul was to exquisite villainy. 

A bad husband is better than no husband at all. 

A by-stander often sees more of the game than those that play, answered Bianca. Does your

Seize him, continued Manfred, and bind him - the first news the princess hears of her champion shall be, that he has lost his head for her sake. 

Is my honesty the price I must pay for this dear youth's safety?

 For me! cried Theodore: let me die a thousand deaths, rather than stain thy conscience. 

It is sinful, replied the friar, to cherish those whom heaven has doomed to destruction. A tyrant's race must be swept from the earth to the third and fourth generation. 

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