gothic_literature nisus "But Theodore's grief was too fresh to admit the thought of another love; and it was not until after frequent discourses with Isabella of his dear Matilda, that he was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul." last sentence of The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole and it starts 040127 what's it to you? who go blather from