“your sad mien never alters; your pulses beat and you breathe, yet you seem already to belong to another world; and sometimes, pray pardon my wild thoughts, when you touch my hand I am surprised to find your hand warm when all the fire seems extinct within you.” VampirismTobeseen Book:Mathilda: A Gothic fiction of Forbidden Desires and Tragic Isolation Source: Mathilda: A Gothic fiction of Forbidden Desires and Tragic Isolation