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Bram Stoker
· Dracula
· Project Gutenberg
Just before I was leaving, the old lady came up to my room and said in a very hysterical way: “Must you go? young Herr, must you go?” She was in such an excited state that she seemed to have lost her grip of what German she knew, and mixed it all up with some other language which I did not know at all. When I told her that I must go at once, and that I was engaged on important business, she asked again: “Do you know ...
The old lady's approach to the narrator is charged with palpable urgency, her words tumbling out in a fractured blend of German and an unfamiliar tongue. This linguistic disarray mirrors her emotional upheaval, underscoring a moment of fragile connection amids...