Complete Novel Dracula

Chapter 27 1 November. – All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The horses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go willingly their full stage at best speed. We have now had so many changes and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged […]

Chapter 26 29 October. – This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last night we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us had done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour, and opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of

Chapter 25 11 October, evening. – Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he says he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept.I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs Harker a little before the time of sunset. We have

Chapter 24 This to Jonathan Harker:You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our search – if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we seek contamination only. But do you stay and take care of her today. This is your best and

Chapter 23 3 October. – The time seemed terribly long whilst we were waiting for the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep our minds active by using them all the time. I could see his beneficent purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker.

Chapter 22 3 October – As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It is now six o’clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and take something to eat; for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are agreed that if we do not eat we

Chapter 21 3 October. – Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well as I can remember it, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I can recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must proceed.When I came to Renfield’s room I found him lying on the floor

Chapter 20 1 October, evening. – I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal Green,1 but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had been opened to him, had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch.

Chapter 19 1 October, 5 a.m. – I went with the party to the search with an easy mind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am so glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work. Somehow, it was a dread to me

Chapter 18 30 September. – I got home at five o’clock, and found that Godalming and Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript of the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife had made and arranged. Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the carriers’ men,

Chapter 17 When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram waiting for him:am coming up by train. jonathan at whitby. important news. – mina harker.The Professor was delighted. ‘Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina,’ he said, ‘pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must go to your house, friend

Chapter 16 It was just a quarter before twelve o’clock when we got into the churchyard over the low wall. The night was dark, with occasional gleams of moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across the sky. We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly in front as he

Chapter 15 For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to him:‘Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?’ He raised his head and looked at me, and somehow the tenderness of his

Chapter 14 23 September. – Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible things; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the responsibility of his new position. I knew he

Chapter 13 The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and her mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted – or blessed – with something of his own obsequious suavity. Even the woman who performed the