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Dracula

CHAPTER 24
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He have allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem more.

Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise.

And like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause." He paused and I said, "But will not the Count take his rebuff wisely?
Since he has been driven from England, will he not avoid it, as a tiger does the village from which he has been hunted ?" "Aha!" he said, "your simile of the tiger good, for me, and I shall adopt him.

Your maneater, as they of India call the tiger who has once tasted blood of the human, care no more for the other prey, but prowl unceasing till he get him.

This that we hunt from our village is a tiger, too, a maneater, and he never cease to prowl.


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