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Dracula

CHAPTER 10
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Thank everybody for being so good to me.

Thank God! Goodnight Arthur.
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.
"And how is our patient ?" "Well, when I left her, or rather when she left me," I answered.
"Come, let us see," he said.

And together we went into the room.
The blind was down, and I went over to raise it gently, whilst Van Helsing stepped, with his soft, cat-like tread, over to the bed.
As I raised the blind, and the morning sunlight flooded the room, I heard the Professor's low hiss of inspiration, and knowing its rarity, a deadly fear shot through my heart.

As I passed over he moved back, and his exclamation of horror, "Gott in Himmel!" needed no enforcement from his agonized face.


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