[Dracula by Bram Stoker]@TWC D-Link bookDracula CHAPTER 9 29/48
I do not care for myself, but for him!' So I am quite free. "I could easily see that she was somewhat bloodless, but I could not see the usual anemic signs, and by the chance, I was able to test the actual quality of her blood, for in opening a window which was stiff a cord gave way, and she cut her hand slightly with broken glass.
It was a slight matter in itself, but it gave me an evident chance, and I secured a few drops of the blood and have analysed them. "The qualitative analysis give a quite normal condition, and shows, I should infer, in itself a vigorous state of health.
In other physical matters I was quite satisfied that there is no need for anxiety, but as there must be a cause somewhere, I have come to the conclusion that it must be something mental. "She complains of difficulty breathing satisfactorily at times, and of heavy, lethargic sleep, with dreams that frighten her, but regarding which she can remember nothing.
She says that as a child, she used to walk in her sleep, and that when in Whitby the habit came back, and that once she walked out in the night and went to East Cliff, where Miss Murray found her.
But she assures me that of late the habit has not returned. "I am in doubt, and so have done the best thing I know of.
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