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"Of that which now followed, I have only retained a vague recollection. / I remember that I suddenly uttered a shriek, which made even Martha / start up, that I flung myself down at her bedside, clutched her burning / hands, and continued to cry out, 'Save me! save me! wake up!'
"And then again I find myself in a different room, into which Robert / has taken me. I remember how, there, in the looking-glass, I recognised / my distorted face, bathed in the perspiration of terror, how I burst / into a laugh, and, shuddering at my own laughter, sank all in a heap, / and how all the while, chuckling and hissing with a thousand covetous / voices, there came sounding in my ears the wish: 'Oh, that she might / die! ' How shall I describe it all, without being hunted to death by the / spectres of that night?