Observation has nothing to do with the supernatural. Given cause and effect, it is not miraculous to predict an outcome.Uncle Silas
I feel sometimes a longing unspeakable for quiet and the retirement of England.Maud Ruthyn
My life has changed dramatically, and I think I have become very obedient and submissive.Maud Ruthyn
It is strange how with time and experience we come to view with such different feelings, the events and purposes of life.Uncle Silas
Everywhere the old house, with its associations, beckoned and seemed to plead with me to remain where I at least had the society of the dead and the memory of the living.Maud Ruthyn
Age and isolation, I suppose, had their effect upon his handsome face, and perhaps his secret troubles. He has a strangely tall, lean figure.Maud Ruthyn
I have not seen him for very many years. He treated me very ill, Maud.Dr. Bryerly
That my father’s apprehension showed itself in one way was entirely owing to his hypochondriacal temperament.Maud Ruthyn
Fear is a marvellous inventor.Uncle Silas
It seems to me that there exists a wicked conspiracy to drive me into distraction.Maud Ruthyn
The revelations of the next few days were destined to be very strange indeed.Uncle Silas
The future is, indeed, a secret; but the past is a fair open scroll, and he who will, may read.Maud Ruthyn
I was isolated constructively at Bartram-Haugh; actually, here in London, at Lady Mary’s.Maud Ruthyn
There was no one who cared to hear, or in whom I could confide my anxieties, and this isolation served to increase the perturbation into which I was thrown.Maud Ruthyn
I had not seemed, somehow, so utterly desolate when I was quite alone.Maud Ruthyn
My heart failed me. I had lived so long in an atmosphere of fright, that this operation on my brain made me, perhaps, more impressible than people in a general way are.Maud Ruthyn
Fears, like other affections, feed and grow upon the thoughts.Uncle Silas
I have been merciful to others; I am relentless to myself.Uncle Silas
We lay very earth-bound, but our gaze wandered among the stars.Maud Ruthyn
That silence which preternaturally succeeds a death—in the chamber of death, I should rather say—had taken possession of me.Maud Ruthyn