There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.
All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject of great floods. It takes a lot of water, and running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear.
I asked Dr. Seward to give me a little opiate of some kind, as I had not slept well the night before......I hope I have not done wrong, for as sleep begins to flirt with me, a new fear comes: that I may have been foolish in thus depriving myself of the power of waking. I might want it. Here comes sleep. Goodnight.
Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a gallant gentleman.
I bear messages which will make both your ears tingle.
Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.
There is a reason why all things are as they are.
Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.
I comforted him as well as I could. In such cases men do not need much expression. A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over the shoulder, a sob in unison, are expressions of sympathy dear to a man's heart.
No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
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