A Phantom Lover: And Other Dark Tales by Vernon Lee by Vernon Lee

Author:Vernon Lee [Lee, Vernon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: aesthetics, gothic, Horror, scary nun, Venice, Ghost Stories, modernist, turn of the century
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Published: 2020-03-16T23:00:00+00:00

PART II

Dec. 17th.—I fear that my craze about Medea da Carpi has become well known, thanks to my silly talk and idiotic songs. That Vice-Prefect’s son—or the assistant at the Archives, or perhaps some of the company at the Contessa’s, is trying to play me a trick! But take care, my good ladies and gentlemen, I shall pay you out in your own coin! Imagine my feelings when, this morning, I found on my desk a folded letter addressed to me in a curious handwriting which seemed strangely familiar to me, and which, after a moment, I recognised as that of the letters of Medea da Carpi at the Archives. It gave me a horrible shock. My next idea was that it must be a present from some one who knew my interest in Medea—a genuine letter of hers on which some idiot had written my address instead of putting it into an envelope. But it was addressed to me, written to me, no old letter; merely four lines, which ran as follows:—

“To Spiridion.—A person who knows the interest you bear her will be at the Church of San Giovanni Decollato this evening at nine. Look out, in the left aisle, for a lady wearing a black mantle, and holding a rose.”

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