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The Vampire.
were made in all the schools of surgery , but no discovery took place . About six weeks elapsed , when , to the horror of the people of the Hotel Pepin , Raffin once more presented himself . An alarm was raised ; he was secured and questioned , when he made the following statement . " Some medical students stole his body for the purposes of dissection , but when about to commence operations , the supposed corpse gave signs of life . They applied proper remediesand succeeded in restoring him
, to existence . Finally , they had bound him by an oath not to betray them . This was plausible enough , and the story was believed by all but the police . " I gave orders , " continued Fouche , " to have Raffin arrested . As soon as he was placed in confinement , I paid him a visit . He was strongly bound , and , in spite of his entreaties , supplications , and resistanceI resolutellunged a surgical instrument into his fleshwhich
, y p , , without producing any injury , would cause an effusion of blood . When he perceived my object , he became furious , and made inconceivable efforts to attack me . He threatened me with his future vengeance ; but , heedless of his violence , I plunged the instrument into his flesh . No sooner did the first drop of blood appear , than the six old wounds opened afresh . All efforts to stop the bleeding proved fruitless , and in a short time he bled to death .
" Eleven persons , " said Fouche , " were present at the scene I describe . Our amazement was inconceivable . We beheld before us a Vampire!—a blood-sucker ! I had expressly summoned MM . Cuvier , Fourcroy , Codet , and Hortal;—they witnessed the fact , and were astounded . I must acknowledge , however , that they afterwards seemed inclined to consider the affair as a trick of the police . They professed their belief in poisonbut not in witchcraft ; and the silence they have observed
, must be attributed less to their promise of secresy than the result of a scene of which they would have fain not have been spectators . The corpse was rolled in a great number of wrappers , the head and hands being first cut off , the whole was then buried . And Raffin has not returned a second time to demand the key of his apartment . "
The Ring Of Charlemagne.
THE RING OF CHARLEMAGNE .
[ From the French of Cordellier Delanoue . j IN the year of grace 780 ( about eleven years after the period of his coronation at Noyon ) , the victorious Emperor Charles , since known as Charlemagne , was celebrating at Worms the festival of Easter on his return to Saxony . The campaign had been attended with the most signal success , and its principal result was , that the Saxons were baptized in thousands—in fact , the whole people became Christian . This
national baptism took place at Orcheim , and towards the close of the year , the Emperor repaired to Rome , and passed the winter in Italy . In Italy—the land of smiling and luxuriant nature—the land where the art of the heathen is overshadowed by the outstretched wings of Christianity—Charles was filled with the noblest spirit of enthusiasm ; which , thanks to the boy-god , whom these heathens painted with wings and blind , fit emblems of the unthinkingness and volatility with which he too frequently inspires his votaries , soon changed to the tender-
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The Vampire.
were made in all the schools of surgery , but no discovery took place . About six weeks elapsed , when , to the horror of the people of the Hotel Pepin , Raffin once more presented himself . An alarm was raised ; he was secured and questioned , when he made the following statement . " Some medical students stole his body for the purposes of dissection , but when about to commence operations , the supposed corpse gave signs of life . They applied proper remediesand succeeded in restoring him
, to existence . Finally , they had bound him by an oath not to betray them . This was plausible enough , and the story was believed by all but the police . " I gave orders , " continued Fouche , " to have Raffin arrested . As soon as he was placed in confinement , I paid him a visit . He was strongly bound , and , in spite of his entreaties , supplications , and resistanceI resolutellunged a surgical instrument into his fleshwhich
, y p , , without producing any injury , would cause an effusion of blood . When he perceived my object , he became furious , and made inconceivable efforts to attack me . He threatened me with his future vengeance ; but , heedless of his violence , I plunged the instrument into his flesh . No sooner did the first drop of blood appear , than the six old wounds opened afresh . All efforts to stop the bleeding proved fruitless , and in a short time he bled to death .
" Eleven persons , " said Fouche , " were present at the scene I describe . Our amazement was inconceivable . We beheld before us a Vampire!—a blood-sucker ! I had expressly summoned MM . Cuvier , Fourcroy , Codet , and Hortal;—they witnessed the fact , and were astounded . I must acknowledge , however , that they afterwards seemed inclined to consider the affair as a trick of the police . They professed their belief in poisonbut not in witchcraft ; and the silence they have observed
, must be attributed less to their promise of secresy than the result of a scene of which they would have fain not have been spectators . The corpse was rolled in a great number of wrappers , the head and hands being first cut off , the whole was then buried . And Raffin has not returned a second time to demand the key of his apartment . "
The Ring Of Charlemagne.
THE RING OF CHARLEMAGNE .
[ From the French of Cordellier Delanoue . j IN the year of grace 780 ( about eleven years after the period of his coronation at Noyon ) , the victorious Emperor Charles , since known as Charlemagne , was celebrating at Worms the festival of Easter on his return to Saxony . The campaign had been attended with the most signal success , and its principal result was , that the Saxons were baptized in thousands—in fact , the whole people became Christian . This
national baptism took place at Orcheim , and towards the close of the year , the Emperor repaired to Rome , and passed the winter in Italy . In Italy—the land of smiling and luxuriant nature—the land where the art of the heathen is overshadowed by the outstretched wings of Christianity—Charles was filled with the noblest spirit of enthusiasm ; which , thanks to the boy-god , whom these heathens painted with wings and blind , fit emblems of the unthinkingness and volatility with which he too frequently inspires his votaries , soon changed to the tender-