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"Morella" is a short story in the Gothic horror genre by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe.
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And then--then, when, poring over forbidden pages, I felt a forbidden spirit enkindling within me--would Morella place her cold hand upon my own, and rake up from the ashes of a dead philosophy some low, singular words, whose strange meaning burned themselves in upon my memory--and then hour after hour would I linger by her side and dwell upon the music of her voice--until, at length, its melody was tainted with terror--and fell like a shadow upon my soul--and I grew pale, and shuddered inwardly at those too unearthly tones.
I have mentioned, formed, for so long a time, almost the sole conversation of Morella and myself.
But the principium individuationis--the notion of that identity which at death is or is not lost forever, was to me, at all times, a consideration of intense interest, not more from the mystical and exciting nature of its consequences, than from the marked and agitated manner in which Morella mentioned them.
Therefore for me, Morella, thy wife, hath the charnel-house no terrors--mark me!
This pestilential Cabrera is not yet quelled, and Morella still holds out.
The authorities exiled him and he absconded to Morella to join the forces of the pretender Don Carlos.