Bram Stoker

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

But he is right enough about the beds and windows and things

What I saw was the Count’s head com­ing out from the win­dow. I did not

I was not alone. The room was the same, un­changed in any way since I came into it; I could see along the floor, in the bril­liant moon­light, my own foot­step

Some of the “New Wo­men” writers will some day start an idea that men and wo­men should be al­lowed to see each other asleep be­fore pro­pos­ing or ac­cept­ing. But I sup­pose the New Wo­man won’t con­des­cend in fu­ture to ac­cept; she will do the pro­pos­ing her­self. And a nice job she will make of it, too! There’s some con­sol­a­tion in that.

I have been more touched than I can say by your grief. That is a won­der­ful ma­chine, but it is cruelly true. It told me, in its very tones, the an­guish of your heart. It was like a soul cry­ing out to Almighty God. No one must hear them spoken ever again! See, I have tried to be use­ful. I have copied out the words on my type­writer, and none other need now hear your heart beat, as I did.”

Good night, every­body.

I read that every known su­per­sti­tion in the world is gathered into the horse­shoe of the Carpath­i­ans, as if it were the centre of some sort of ima­gin­at­ive whirl­pool; if so my stay may be very in­ter­est­ing.

I had to hurry break­fast, for the train star­ted a little be­fore eight, or rather it ought to have done so, for after rush­ing to the sta­tion at 7:30 I had to sit in the car­riage for more than an hour be­fore we began to move. It seems to me that the fur­ther east you go the more un­punc­tual are the trains. What ought they to be in Ch­ina?

“Do you know what day it is?” I answered that it was the fourth of May. She shook her head as she said again:

“Oh, yes! I know that! I know that, but do you know what day it is?” On my say­ing that I did not un­der­stand, she went on:

“It is the eve of St. Ge­orge’s Day. Do you not know that to­night, when the clock strikes mid­night, all the evil things in the world will have full sway? Do you know where you are go­ing, and what you are go­ing to?”