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Dracula

CHAPTER 18
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But that is gone, and we must so work, that other poor souls perish not, whilst we can save.

The nosferatu do not die like the bee when he sting once.

He is only stronger, and being stronger, have yet more power to work evil.

This vampire which is amongst us is of himself so strong in person as twenty men, he is of cunning more than mortal, for his cunning be the growth of ages, he have still the aids of necromancy, which is, as his etymology imply, the divination by the dead, and all the dead that he can come nigh to are for him at command; he is brute, and more than brute; he is devil in callous, and the heart of him is not; he can, within his range, direct the elements, the storm, the fog, the thunder; he can command all the meaner things, the rat, and the owl, and the bat, the moth, and the fox, and the wolf, he can grow and become small; and he can at times vanish and come unknown.

How then are we to begin our strike to destroy him?
How shall we find his where, and having found it, how can we destroy?
My friends, this is much, it is a terrible task that we undertake, and there may be consequence to make the brave shudder.
For if we fail in this our fight he must surely win, and then where end we?
Life is nothings, I heed him not.


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