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?

got a tough nut to crack.

enough

In the pop­u­la­tion of Transylvania there are four dis­tinct na­tion­al­it­ies: Sax­ons in the South, and mixed with them the Wal­lachs, who are the des­cend­ants of the Da­cians; Mag­yars in the West, and Szekelys in the East and North. I am go­ing among the lat­ter, who claim to be des­cen­ded from At­tila and the Huns. This may be so, for when the Mag­yars conquered the coun­try in the el­ev­enth cen­tury they found the Huns settled in it. 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.