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Dracula

CHAPTER 25
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No news yet of the ship we wait for.
Mrs.Harker reported last night and this morning as usual.

"Lapping waves and rushing water," though she added that "the waves were very faint." The telegrams from London have been the same, "no further report." Van Helsing is terribly anxious, and told me just now that he fears the Count is escaping us.
He added significantly, "I did not like that lethargy of Madam Mina's.
Souls and memories can do strange things during trance." I was about to ask him more, but Harker just then came in, and he held up a warning hand.

We must try tonight at sunset to make her speak more fully when in her hypnotic state.
28 October .-- Telegram.

Rufus Smith, London, to Lord Godalming, care H.B.M.Vice Consul, Varna.
"Czarina Catherine reported entering Galatz at one o'clock today." DR.SEWARD'S DIARY.
28 October .-- When the telegram came announcing the arrival in Galatz I do not think it was such a shock to any of us as might have been expected.

True, we did not know whence, or how, or when, the bolt would come.


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