Dracula, Chapter 10 - 0 views
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Vanessa Vaile on 12 Aug 12confinement theme ~ includes knowledge as well as bodies, women, infection
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When I described Lucy's symptoms, the same as before, but infinitely more marked, he looked very grave, but said nothing.
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the narrow black velvet band which she seems always to wear round her throat, buckled with an old diamond buckle
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There was no sign of disease, but the edges were white and worn looking, as if by some trituration. It at once occurred to me that that this wound, or whatever it was, might be the means of that manifest loss of blood.
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"But, my dear girl, you may sleep tonight. I am here watching you, and I can promise that nothing will happen." "Ah, I can trust you!" she said.
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All night long I watched by her. She never stirred, but slept on and on in a deep, tranquil, life-giving, health-giving sleep.
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DR. SEWARD'S DIARY 10 September.--I was conscious of the Professor's hand on my head, and started awake all in a second. That is one of the things that we learn in an asylum, at any rate.
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There on the bed, seemingly in a swoon, lay poor Lucy, more horribly white and wan-looking than ever.
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how Lucy had made such a retrograde movement, and how she could have been drained of so much blood with no sign any where to show for it
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"Now you go home, and eat much and drink eNough. Make yourself strong. I stay here tonight, and I shall sit up with little miss myself.
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In the hall two of the maids came to me, and asked if they or either of them might not sit up with Miss Lucy.
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11 September.--This afternoon I went over to Hillingham. Found Van Helsing in excellent spirits, and Lucy much better.
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"No trifling with me! I never jest! There is grim purpose in what I do, and I warn you that you do Not thwart me.
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you always have a reason for what you do, but this certainly puzzles me. It is well we have no sceptic here, or he would say that you were working some spell to keep out an evil spirit."
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remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror