原文 (英语)

INTRODUCTION. Matthew Gregory Lewis, who professed to have translated this romance out of the German, very much, I believe, as Horace Walpole professed to have taken The Castle of Otranto from an old Italian manuscript, was born in 1775 of a wealthy family.  His father had an estate in India and a post in a Government office.  His mother was daughter to Sir Thomas Sewell, Master of the Rolls in the reign of George III.  She was a young mother; her son Matthew was devoted to her from the