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Dracula / Perception and Awareness
You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are t...
Dracula / Life and Death
Into two of these I went, but saw nothing except fragments of old coffins and piles of dust; in the third, however, I made a discovery. There, in one ...
Dracula / Desperation for Life
Check to the King!” We took Lucy into another room, which had by now been prepared, and laid her in bed and forced a few drops of brandy down her thro...
Dracula / Gender and Truth
You will tell him, because I would, if I were in your place, certainly tell Arthur. A woman ought to tell her husband everything--don’t you think so, ...
Dracula / Intimacy and Control
He rubbed the brandy, as on another occasion, on her lips and gums and on her wrists and the palms of her hands. He said to me:-- “I can do this, all ...
Dracula / Mind and Madness
I have tried to keep an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, th...
Dracula / Bravery and Kindness
It seemed but poor comfort to so brave and unselfish a soul, and impulsively I bent over and kissed him. The tears rose in his eyes, and there was a m...
Dracula / Quest for Truth
Doubtless we are on the track of the missing boxes. If we find them all in that house, then our work is near the end. But if there be some missing, we...
Dracula / Social Dynamics
We once carried out a small matter of renting some chambers for him when he was the Honourable Arthur Holmwood. If you will let me have his lordship’s...
Dracula / Health and Hope
Last night she slept well all night, and did not disturb me once. The roses seem coming back already to her cheeks, though she is still sadly pale and...
Dracula / Resting Place
Lucy lies in the tomb of her kin, a lordly death-house in a lonely churchyard, away from teeming London; where the air is fresh, and the sun rises ove...
Dracula / Strategic Forethought
As usual Van Helsing had thought ahead of everyone else, and was prepared with an exact ordering of our work. “It is perhaps well,” he said, “that at ...
Dracula / Aspiring Partnership
I have been working very hard lately, because I want to keep up with Jonathan’s studies, and I have been practising shorthand very assiduously. When w...
Dracula / Grotesque Survival
He looked very sad at this, so I said that he must clear out some of them, at all events. He cheerfully acquiesced in this, and I gave him the same ti...
Dracula / Confinement of Strength
It is a mercy that we have found out his strength and his danger in good time. With strength and determination like his, he might have done wild work ...
Dracula / Loss and Mourning
The wind rushed in through the broken window, and the door slammed to. They lifted off the body of my dear mother, and laid her, covered up with a she...
Dracula / Defiance and Authority
Then he went and made open the shutters in front and walk out and in through the door, before the very eyes of the police. Then he have an auction in ...
Dracula / Desire for Urgency
This did not at all satisfy him, for he said quickly:-- “But I fear, Dr. I desire to go at once--here--now--this very hour--this very moment, if I may...
Dracula / Burden of Secrecy
Henceforth our work is to be a sealed book to her, till at least such time as we can tell her that all is finished, and the earth free from a monster ...
Dracula / Dawns Awakening
* * * * * _4 October, morning._--Once again during the night I was wakened by Mina. This time we had all had a good sleep, for the grey of the coming ...
Dracula / Gendered Emotions
Men and women are so different in manifestations of nervous strength or weakness! Then when his face grew grave and stern again I asked him why his mi...
Dracula / Conflict of Interest
Finally she went down on her knees and implored me not to go; at least to wait a day or two before starting. It was all very ridiculous but I did not ...
Dracula / Tension and Touch
The nails were long and fine, and cut to a sharp point. As the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me, I could not repress a shudder.
Dracula / Silent Decisions
I determined not to wake her, but that, when I should return from this new search, I would arrange for her going back to Exeter. I think she would be ...
Dracula / Domestic Tension
I left Quincey lying down after having a glass of wine, and told the cook to get ready a good breakfast. Then a thought struck me, and I went back to ...
Dracula / Harvest of Flies
I thought it well to humour him: so he is back in his room with the window open. He has the sugar of his tea spread out on the window-sill, and is rea...
Dracula / Vampiric Transformation
I can see the characteristics of the vampire coming in her face. It is now but very, very slight; but it is to be seen if we have eyes to notice witho...
Dracula / Transformation and Control
As he dare not change to man’s form without suspicion--which he evidently wishes to avoid--he must remain in the box. If, then, we can come on board a...
Dracula / Friendship and Reflection
But we live and learn, and in our present task we must take no chance, as my friend Quincey would say. Seward seemed to answer them both in a dreamy k...
Dracula / Science and Belief
Then, friend John, am I to take it that you simply accept fact, and are satisfied to let from premise to conclusion be a blank? Then tell me--for I am...
Dracula / Confronting the Unknown
Do not fear any of us, we are all devoted to this cause, and to-day shall see the end. The time is coming for action; to-day this Vampire is limit to ...
Dracula / Maritime Uncertainty
The wind is high--I can hear it in the shrouds, and the bow throws back the foam.” It is evident that the _Czarina Catherine_ is still at sea, hasteni...
Dracula / Perception and Myth
And that’s all I know for certing.” “Did any one else see anything?” “One of our gard’ners was a-comin’ ’ome about that time from a ’armony, when he s...
Dracula / Imminent Tension
Mate getting very impatient with them; feared some trouble ahead. * * * * * On 17 July, yesterday, one of the men, Olgaren, came to my cabin, and in a...
Dracula / Hypnotic Intrigues
Mina woke me early, about the same time as yesterday, and asked me to bring Dr. I thought that it was another occasion for hypnotism, and without ques...
Dracula / Vulnerability and Anxiety
She seems not too well herself, and doubtless she fears to worry me. I tried to keep awake, and succeeded for a while; but when the clock struck twelv...
Dracula / Madness and Memory
He grew very grave; and, after thinking the matter over for a while asked me to take him to Renfield. As we came to the door we heard the lunatic with...
Dracula / Power Dynamics
His door was ajar, so that he could hear the opening of the door of our room. He came at once; as he passed into the room, he asked Mina if the others...
Dracula / Corrupted Purity
The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness. Van Helsing stepped out, and, obedient to his gest...
Dracula / Tension and Desire
He did not, however, betray himself; he nodded slightly and said: “Go on,” in a low voice. Renfield proceeded:-- “He came up to the window in the mist...
Dracula / Intimacy and Obligation
After supper I smoked, as on the last evening, and the Count stayed with me, chatting and asking questions on every conceivable subject, hour after ho...
Dracula / Business Acumen
Is it not so?” “Of course,” I replied; and “such is often done by men of business, who do not like the whole of their affairs to be known by any one p...
Dracula / Dreadful Transformation
If I was shocked when I saw her yesterday, I was horrified when I saw her to-day. She was ghastly, chalkily pale; the red seemed to have gone even fro...
Dracula / Guilt and Uncertainty
He doubted me when I took him from her kiss when she was dying. I know he has forgiven me because in some mistaken idea I have done things that preven...
Dracula / Disconnection and Nostalgia
When we entered we saw with amazement that he had spread out his sugar as of old; the flies, lethargic with the autumn, were beginning to buzz into th...
Dracula / Desire and Duty
I dared not pause to look on her as I had on her sister, lest once more I should begin to be enthrall; but I go on searching until, presently, I find ...
Dracula / Everyday Interactions
The workman took off his coat leisurely and hung it on one of the spikes of the rail, saying something to a policeman who just then sauntered along. T...
Dracula / Arrival of Change
He will now come on to Bukovina, and return to-morrow or the next day; better the next day.” Whilst he was speaking the horses began to neigh and snor...
Dracula / Isolation and Grief
If you could have looked into my very heart then when I want to laugh; if you could have done so when the laugh arrived; if you could do so now, when ...
Dracula / Loyalty and Trust
Then you shall bless me from first to last for your own sake, and for the sake of others and for her dear sake to whom I swore to protect.” “And, inde...
Dracula / Protective Circumference
Then, with the fear on me of what might be, I drew a ring so big for her comfort, round where Madam Mina sat; and over the ring I passed some of the w...
Dracula / Strength in Vulnerability
You are weakened already.” As he spoke he took off his coat and rolled up his shirt-sleeve. Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return...
Dracula / Secrets and Acknowledgments
I have copied out the words on my typewriter, and none other need now hear your heart beat, as I did.” “No one need ever know, shall ever know,” I sai...
Dracula / Breaking Boundaries
Suddenly the door was burst open, and in rushed my patient, with his face distorted with passion. I was thunderstruck, for such a thing as a patient g...
Dracula / Cycle of Justice
You shall be avenged in turn; for not one of them but shall minister to your needs. But as yet you are to be punished for what you have done.
Dracula / Vigilance and Appearance
He will need very careful watching, and much attention. I shall stay with you myself; but I shall first dress myself.
Dracula / Consciousness and Death
It will be much difference, mark me, whether she dies conscious or in her sleep. Wake that poor boy, and let him come and see the last; he trusts us, ...
Dracula / Cliffs and Shadows
Making straight for the steep cliff, where the churchyard hangs over the laneway to the East Pier so steeply that some of the flat tombstones--“thruff...
Dracula / Dichotomy of Silence
the same thing happened--violent all day then quiet from moonrise to sunrise.
Dracula / Depths of Expression
I am speaking from the depths of my heart--of my very soul. You don’t know whom you wrong, or how; and I may not tell.
Dracula / Vitality and Loss
Harker came in to see me this afternoon she wasn’t the same; it was like tea after the teapot had been watered.” Here we all moved, but no one said a ...