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?

We learn from fail­ure, not from suc­cess!”

I am be­gin­ning to feel this noc­turnal ex­ist­ence tell on me. It is des­troy­ing my nerve. I start at my own shadow, and am full of all sorts of hor­rible ima­gin­ings.

the peoples thought that the were­wolves them­selves had come. Here, too, when they came, they found the Huns, whose war­like fury had swept the earth like a liv­ing flame, till the dy­ing peoples held that in their veins ran the blood of those old witches, who, ex­pelled from Scythia had mated with the dev­ils in the desert