Three years before, I was engaged in the same manner and had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity had desolated my heart and filled it for ever with the bitterest remorse.

I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.

I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.

You have destroyed the work which you began; what is it that you intend? Do you dare to break your promise?

I walked about the isle like a restless spectre, separated from all it loved and miserable in the separation.

I trembled and my heart failed within me, when, on looking up, I saw by the light of the moon the dæmon at the casement.