“Some of the ‘New Women’ writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting. But I suppose the New Woman won’t condescend in future to accept; she will do the proposing herself. And a nice job she will make of it, too!”

“Some day soon the Angel of Death will sound his trumpet for me. But don't ye dooal an' greet, my deary!' - for he saw that I was crying - 'if he should come this very night I'd not refuse to answer his call. For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'”

“Then without warning the tempest broke. With a rapidity which, at the time, seemed incredible, and even afterwards is impossible to realize, the whole aspect of nature at once became convulsed.”

“There seemed a strange stillness over everything; but as I listened I heard as if from down below in the valley the howling of many wolves. The Count’s eyes gleamed, and he said: – ‘Listen to them – the children of the night. What music they make!’”

“‘Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!’”

“‘Oh, yes! I know that, I know that! But do you know what day it is?’ On my saying that I did not understand, she went on: ‘It is the eve of St George’s Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?’”

“I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (Mem., I must ask the Count all about them.)”

“I suppose a cry does us all good at times- clears the air like other rain does.”

“There is a reason why all things are as they are.”