The singularity of this account insensibly engaged my attention.

“Did she never speak to those who met her?” said I.

“Not she. The specimens indeed, which she gave nightly of her talents for conversation, were by no means inviting. Sometimes the castle rung with oaths and execrations: a moment after she repeated her paternoster: now she howled out the most horrible blasphemies, and then chaunted ‘ De Profundis