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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"The good husbandman tell you so then because he knows, but not till then
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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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spiritual pathology,
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She was ghastly, chalkily pale.
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Her breathing was painful to see or hear.
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I would give the last drop of blood in my body for her."
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She wants blood, and blood she must have or die
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transfusion of blood, to transfer from full veins of one to the empty veins
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of blood so pure
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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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deep hiss of indrawn breath
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What do you make of that mark on her throat?"
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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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The opiate worked itself off towards dusk, and she waked naturally.
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looked at me gratefully whenever I caught her eye
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You do not want to sleep?"
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"Afraid to go to sleep! Why so? It is the boon we all crave for."
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"Ah, not if you were like me, if sleep was to you a presage of horror!"
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All this weakness comes to me in sleep,
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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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It was dark when I was able to inquire about my zoophagous patient.
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I lay on the sofa, and forgot all about everything.
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Somehow Arthur feels very, very close to me.
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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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the faint seemed to merge subtly into the narcotic sleep.
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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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For over and over again have I seen similar instances of woman's kindness.
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waiting for sleep. It is coming.
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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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No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions.
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more confinement of information ~ characters are also always saying don't tell, don't say anything about. etc. Also the effect of Victorian reticence it to sequester knowledge and information
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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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we left the house in my fly,
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Tonight I can sleep in peace, and sleep I want,
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remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror
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weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend