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.

, 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.

"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!"

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

One by one sev­eral of the pas­sen­gers offered me gifts, which they pressed upon me with an earn­est­ness which would take no denial; these were cer­tainly of an odd and var­ied kind, but each was given in simple good faith, with a kindly word, and a bless­ing, and that strange mix­ture of fear-mean­ing move­ments which I had seen out­side the hotel at Bis­tritz—the sign of the cross and the guard against the evil eye.

The road was rugged, but still we seemed to fly over it with a fe­ver­ish haste. I could not un­der­stand then what the haste meant, but the driver was evid­ently bent on los­ing no time in reach­ing Borgo Prund

When we star­ted, the crowd round the inn door, which had by this time swelled to a con­sid­er­able size, all made the sign of the cross and poin­ted two fin­gers to­wards me. With some dif­fi­culty I got a fel­low-pas­sen­ger to tell me what they meant; he would not an­swer at first, but on learn­ing that I was Eng­lish, he ex­plained that it was a charm or guard against the evil eye.