Carmilla by J Sheridan Le Fanu. Chapter 2 - A Guest

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Carmilla by J Sheridan Le Fanu Narrated by Louisa Thornton Chapter 2 â A Guest An excerpt from Chapter 2 of Le Fanuâs novel â It said "I have lost my darling daughter, for as such I loved her. During the last days of dear Bertha's illness I was not able to write to you. "Before then I had no idea of her danger. I have lost her, and now learn _all_, too late. She died in the peace of innocence, and in the glorious hope of a blessed futurity. The fiend who betrayed our infatuated hospitality has done it all. I thought I was receiving into my house innocence, gaiety, a charming companion for my lost Bertha. Heavens! what a fool have I been! "I thank God my child died without a suspicion of the cause of her sufferings. She is gone without so much as conjecturing the nature of her illness, and the accursed passion of the agent of all this misery. I devote my remaining days to tracking and extinguishing a monster. I am told I may hope to accomplish my righteous and merciful purpose. At present there is scarcely a gleam of light to guide me. I curse my conceited incredulity, my despicable affectation of superiority, my blindness, my obstinacy--all--too late. Introducing, as Laura, the nar…

Directors & creators

Radio Theatre Group

Subjects

Carmilla; J Sheridan Le Fanu; Radio Theatre Group; Louisa Thornton; Bruce Downie

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