The Victim Quotes in The Imp of the Perverse
For weeks, for months, I pondered upon the means of the murder. I rejected a thousand schemes, because their accomplishment involved a chance of detection.
The next morning he was discovered dead in his bed, and the Coroner’s verdict was—“Death by the visitation of God.”
And now my own casual self-suggestion that I might possibly be fool enough to confess the murder of which I had been guilty, confronted me, as if the very ghost of him whom I had murdered—and beckoned me on to death.
The Victim Quotes in The Imp of the Perverse
For weeks, for months, I pondered upon the means of the murder. I rejected a thousand schemes, because their accomplishment involved a chance of detection.
The next morning he was discovered dead in his bed, and the Coroner’s verdict was—“Death by the visitation of God.”
And now my own casual self-suggestion that I might possibly be fool enough to confess the murder of which I had been guilty, confronted me, as if the very ghost of him whom I had murdered—and beckoned me on to death.
