EPIGRAPH.
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“She is the defier of God. She is also the mother of lunacies, and the suggestress of suicides. Deep lie the roots of her power; but narrow is the nation that she rules. For she can approach only those in whom a profound nature has been upheaved by central convulsions; in whom the heart trembles, and the brain rocks under conspiracies of tempest from without and tempest from within. ... And her name is Mater Tenebrarum--Our Lady of Darkness.”—De Quincey.
OUR LADY OF DARKNESS
A NOVEL
BY
BERNARD CAPES
AUTHOR OF ‘THE LAKE OF WINE,’ ‘ADVENTURES OF
THE COMTE DE LA MUETTE,’ ETC.
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
MDCCCXCIX
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