The evil spirit of love left his soul for a moment, but returned, though with a strange and lurid aspect, bringing with him other and worse spirits than himself-hate, revenge, blood-thirstiness-all merged in and coloured by the excited and fanatic temper of the time. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

The evil spirit of love left his soul for a moment, but returned, though with a strange and lurid aspect, bringing with him other and worse spirits than himself-hate, revenge, blood-thirstiness-all merged in and coloured by the excited and fanatic temper of the time.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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