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Dracula / Youthful Desire
The fair girl shook her head coquettishly, and the other two urged her on. You are first, and we shall follow; yours is the right to begin.” The other...
Dracula / Silent Mystery
I can’t quite remember how I fell asleep last night. I remember hearing the sudden barking of the dogs and a lot of queer sounds, like praying on a ve...
Dracula / Connections in Grief
Big, dark blue eyes are set widely apart, and are quick and tender or stern with the man’s moods. “It is Mina Murray that I came to see that was frien...
Dracula / Urban Intrigue
The north and west were surely never meant to be left out of his diabolical scheme--let alone the City itself and the very heart of fashionable London...
Dracula / Decay and Allure
None of the others had met the Count at all at close quarters, and when I had seen him he was either in the fasting stage of his existence in his room...
Dracula / Revealed Tensions
When we were parting he said:-- “Perhaps you will come to town if I send to you, and take Madam Mina too.” “We shall both come when you will,” I said....
Dracula / Sacrifice and Loyalty
No word shall be lost; and in the good time I shall give them back to you. It’s a hard thing I ask, but you will do it, will you not, for Lucy’s sake?...
Dracula / Moral Dilemmas
We found both places; six boxes in each and we destroyed them all!” “Destroyed?” asked the Professor. “For him!” We were silent for a minute, and then...
Dracula / Fear of Intrusion
Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her mother, ...
Dracula / Urban Reflections
He seemed not to notice, but remarked that the smuts in London were not quite so bad as they used to be when he was a student here. I am to get his re...
Dracula / New Beginnings
He has closed the account most accurately, and to-day begun a new record. How many of us begin a new record with each day of our lives? To me it seems...
Dracula / Pledge of Love
Then he took my hand in his, and oh, Lucy, it was the first time he took _his wife’s_ hand, and said that it was the dearest thing in all the wide wor...
Dracula / Predatory Presence
There was something so panther-like in the movement--something so unhuman, that it seemed to sober us all from the shock of his coming. The first to a...
Dracula / Hidden Histories
None of it that I noticed was less than three hundred years old. There were also chains and ornaments, some jewelled, but all of them old and stained....
Dracula / Gothic Tension
We moved to explore the house, all keeping together in case of attack; for we knew we had a strong and wily enemy to deal with, and as yet we did not ...
Dracula / Manipulation and Control
They, an’ all grims an’ signs an’ warnin’s, be all invented by parsons an’ illsome beuk-bodies an’ railway touters to skeer an’ scunner hafflin’s, an’...
Dracula / Vampire Limitations
In fine, let us consider the limitations of the vampire in general, and of this one in particular. “All we have to go upon are traditions and supersti...
Dracula / Empathy and Connection
I saw the manuscript in his hand, and I knew that when he read it he would realise how much I knew; so I said to him:-- “I wish I could comfort all wh...
Dracula / Loneliness and Hope
He took my hands and raised me up, and made me sit on the sofa, and sat by me; he held my hand in his, and said to me with, oh, such infinite sweetnes...
Dracula / Paternal Loss
Some may not think it so sad for us, but we had both come to so love him that it really seems as though we had lost a father. I never knew either fath...
Dracula / Fate and Navigation
Well, on we went, and as the fog didn’t let up for five days I joost let the wind carry us; for if the Deil wanted to get somewheres--well, he would f...
Dracula / Psychological Turmoil
His moods have so followed the doings of the Count, that the coming destruction of the monster may be carried to him in some subtle way. If we could o...
Dracula / Character Complexity
John Seward, the lunatic-asylum man, with the strong jaw and the good forehead. He was very cool outwardly, but was nervous all the same.
Dracula / Emotional Contrasts
My dear, I must stop here at present, I feel so miserable, though I am so happy. “_Evening._ “Arthur has just gone, and I feel in better spirits than ...
Dracula / Dislocation and Awakening
I seem to remember that once the West Lighthouse was right under me, and then there was a sort of agonising feeling, as if I were in an earthquake, an...
Dracula / Silence and Howling
We were both silent for a while; and as I looked towards the window I saw the first dim streak of the coming dawn. There seemed a strange stillness ov...
Dracula / Grief and Humility
When Lord Godalming got his and turned it over--it does make a pretty good pile--he said:-- “Did you write all this, Mrs. Harker?” I nodded, and he we...
Dracula / Urban Anxieties
To-day he came back, and almost bounded into the room at about half-past five o’clock, and thrust last night’s “Westminster Gazette” into my hand. “Wh...
Dracula / Loves Complexities
Being proposed to is all very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know lov...
Dracula / Sailors and Superstition
We ran by Gibraltar wi’oot bein’ able to signal; an’ till we came to the Dardanelles and had to wait to get our permit to pass, we never were within h...
Dracula / Life and Numbers
I scolded him for it, but he argued quietly that it was very good and very wholesome; that it was life, strong life, and gave life to him. He has evid...
Dracula / Dreams and Reality
Before she answered, that sweet, puckered look came into her forehead, which Arthur--I call him Arthur from her habit--says he loves; and, indeed, I d...
Dracula / Time and Morality
“Because,” he said sternly, “it is too late--or too early. “This was stolen in the night.” “How, stolen,” I asked in wonder, “since you have it now?” ...
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 ...