Dracula: A Mystery StoryW. R. Caldwell, 1897 - 378 páginas |
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Abraham Van Helsing answered arsk Arthur Arthur Holmwood asked began Bistritz blood Borgo Pass Bukovina castle close coming Count Count Dracula dark dead door Dracula dread eyes face fear feel felt friend John Galatz grave hand Harker Harker's Journal head hear heard heart Helsing Helsing's horses John Seward Jonathan Harker's keep knew last night letter lips looked Lord Godalming Lucy Westenra Lucy's Mina Murray mind morning never once passed pause Peter Hawkins poor dear poor Lucy Professor Quincey Morris Renfield rest round seemed Seward Seward's Diary ship silence sleep Slovaks smile sort soul speak spoke stood strange sweet tell terrible things thought throat to-day to-night told took Transylvania turned Un-Dead Varna voice wait wake watch Westenra whilst Whitby window wolves word
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Página 306 - You think you have left me without a place to rest, but I have more. My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already. And through them you and others shall yet be mine, my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my jackals when I want to feed. Bah!
Página 379 - I took the papers from the safe where they had been ever since our return so long ago. We were struck with the fact, that in all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document ; nothing but a mass of type-writing, except the later note-books of Mina and Seward and myself, and Van Helsing's memorandum.
Página 287 - And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood, kin of my kin, my bountiful wine-press for a while, and shall be later on my companion and my helper.
Página 20 - I am sorry that I had to be away so long today; but you will, I know, forgive one who has so many important affairs in hand.' Of course I said all I could about being willing, and asked if I might come into that room when I chose. He answered, 'Yes, certainly,' and added: 'You may go anywhere you wish in the castle, except where the doors are locked, where of course you will not wish to go. There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you...
Página 1 - 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.
Página 281 - With his left hand he held both Mrs. Harker's hands, keeping them away with her arms at full tension; his right hand gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down on his bosom. Her white nightdress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare breast which was shown by his torn-open dress. The attitude of the two had a terrible resemblance to a child forcing a kitten's nose into a saucer of milk to compel it to drink.
Página 17 - ... growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere. His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth. These protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years. For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed. The...
Página 36 - And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have powers of their own which mere 'modernity
Página 320 - ... surmises. He have done this alone; all alone! from a ruin tomb in a forgotten land. What more may he not do when the greater world of thought is open to him. He that can smile at death, as we know him; who can flourish in the midst of diseases that kill off whole peoples. Oh, if such an one was to come from God, and not the Devil, what a force for good might he not be in this old world of ours. But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret;...
Página 12 - At last there came a time when the driver went further afield than he had yet gone, and during his absence, the horses began to tremble worse than ever and to snort and scream with fright. I could not see any cause for it, for the howling of the wolves had ceased altogether; but just then the moon, sailing through the black clouds, appeared behind the jagged crest of a beetling, pine-clad rock, and by its light I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling red tongues, with long,...