The Devils & Demons MEGAPACK ®: 25 Modern and Classic Tales by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: fantasy, horror, devil, demon, supernatural
ISBN: 9781479407576
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2015-10-21T16:00:00+00:00

“Nay; I have given it all up now. I will not meddle with spiritualism again. It unhinged my nerves and destroyed my peace of mind while I was investigating it.”

The prince shrugged his shoulders.

“Prince, leave him alone,” said the abbé, smiling; “his theory is a great deal more sensible than yours; and if I could bring myself to believe that at your stances any real phenomenon does take place (which of course no sane person can), I should be rather inclined to accept Octave’s interpretation of the matter.

“Let us follow it out a little further, for the mere sake of talking nonsense. ‘Qui vit sans folie n’est pas si sage qu’il croit!’ Doubtless the dominant passion of a man would be the most likely to appear—that is to say, would be the most tangible?”

“That,” replied the duke, “would depend upon circumstances. If the phenomenon should take place while the man is alone, doubtless it would be so; but if while at a séance, attended by many people, the apparition would be the product of the master-passions of all: and thus it is that many of the visions which appear at stances, when the sitters are not harmonized, are often most remarkable and unrecognizable anomalies.”

“I thought I understood from Madame de Girardin that certain spirits always appeared.”

“Pooh, pooh! Madame de Girardin never went deep enough into the matter. The most ravishing vision I ever saw was when I fancied I saw Love.”

“What? Love! An emanation from yourself?”

The duke sighed.

“Ah! that is what proved to me that what I saw could not be Love. That sentiment has been too long dormant in me to awaken to a corporeal expression.”

“What made you think it was Love?” asked Pomerantseff.

“It was a white dove, with something, I cannot express in words, that was human about it. I felt ineffably happy while it was with me.”

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