Dracula

I think I must have fallen asleep and kept dreaming of the incident, for it seemed to be repeated endlessly, and now looking back, it is like a sort of awful nightmare.

seems to me that the fur­ther east you go the more un­punc­tual are the trains.

"She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It's quite a privilege to attend on her. It's not too much to say that she will do credit to our establishment!"

, what a wealth of sor­row in a few words! Poor Mrs. Westenra! poor Lucy!

The ap­proach of sun­set was so very beau­ti­ful, so grand in its masses of splen­didly-col­oured clouds, that there was quite an as­semblage on the walk along the cliff in the old church­yard to en­joy the beauty.

We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not Eng­land. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your ex­per­i­ences already, you know some­thing of what strange things there may be.

It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China?

left in pretty good time, and came after night­fall to Klausen­burgh. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Roy­ale. I had for din­ner, or rather sup­per, a chicken done up some way with red pep­per, which was very good but thirsty. (Mem., get re­cipe for Mina.) I asked the waiter, and he said it was called “paprika hendl,” and that, as it was a na­tional dish, I should be able to get it any­where along the

The im­pres­sion I had was that we were leav­ing the West and en­ter­ing the East;

But my very feel­ings changed to re­pul­sion and ter­ror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the win­dow and be­gin to crawl down the castle wall over that dread­ful abyss, face down with his cloak spread­ing out around him like great wings