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"I don't knohich should be --"If you were less pretty I think I should be veryas you are, and you and I both so young, I feel only

that I have o, and have already a

right to your intimacy; at all events it does seem as if ere

destined, from our earliest childhood, to be friends I wonder whether

you feel as strangely draards me as I do to you; I have never had

a friend--shall I find one now?" She sighed, and her fine dark eyes

gazed passionately on me

Now the truth is, I felt rather unaccountably towards the beautiful

stranger I did feel, as she said, "draards her," but there was

also so, however, the

sense of attraction immensely prevailed She interested and won

I perceived now so over her,

and hastened to bid her good night

"The doctor thinks," I added, "that you ought to have a , and you will find her a very

useful and quiet creature"

"How kind of you, but I could not sleep, I never could with an attendant