Orakel Classics
Dracula
Dracula by Bram Stoker, prepared as a public-domain Orakel edition with 27 chapter-aware companion links.
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CHAPTER I: JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER I: JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL from Dracula. 3 May. Bistritz.--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible. The
Open2CHAPTER II: JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--_continued_
CHAPTER II: JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--_continued_ from Dracula. 5 May.--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than it really is. I have not yet been able to see it by
Open3CHAPTER III: JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--_continued_
CHAPTER III: JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--_continued_ from Dracula. When I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over me. I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering out of every window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my helplessness overpowered all other feelings. When I look back after a few hours I think I must have been mad for the time, for I behaved much as a rat does in a trap. When, however, the conviction had come to
Open4CHAPTER IV: JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--_continued_
CHAPTER IV: JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--_continued_ from Dracula. I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but could not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, there were certain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by in a manner which was not my habit. My watch was still unwound, and I am rigorously accustomed to wind it the last thing before going to
Open5CHAPTER V: _Letter from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Westenra._
CHAPTER V: _Letter from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Westenra._ from Dracula. “Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. I have been working very hard lately, because I want to keep up with Jonathan’s studies, and I have been practising shorthand very assiduously. When we are married
Open6CHAPTER VI: MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER VI: MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL from Dracula. 24 July. Whitby.--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in which they have rooms. This is a lovely place. The little river, the Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the harbour. A great viaduct runs across, with high piers, through which the view seems somehow further away than it really is. The valley is
Open7CHAPTER VII: CUTTING FROM “THE DAILYGRAPH,” 8 AUGUST
CHAPTER VII: CUTTING FROM “THE DAILYGRAPH,” 8 AUGUST from Dracula. One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been experienced here, with results both strange and unique. The weather had been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of August. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the great body of holiday-makers laid out yesterday for visits to Mulgrave Woods, Robin Hood’s Bay, Rig Mill, Runswick, Staithes, and the various trips
Open8CHAPTER VIII: MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER VIII: MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL from Dracula. Same day, 11 o’clock p. m.--Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I had made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night. We had a lovely walk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some dear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse, and frightened the wits out of us. I believe we forgot everything except, of course, personal fear, and it seemed to wipe the slate
Open9CHAPTER IX: _Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra._
CHAPTER IX: _Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra._ from Dracula. “I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here. I feel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except that I knew I was coming to Jonathan, and, that as I should have to do some nursing, I had better get all the sleep I could.... I found my dear
Open10CHAPTER X: _Letter, Dr. Seward to Hon. Arthur Holmwood._
CHAPTER X: _Letter, Dr. Seward to Hon. Arthur Holmwood._ from Dracula. “My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit. There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs. Westenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me professionally about her. I took advantage of the opportunity, and told her that my old master, Van Helsing, the great specialist, was coming to stay with me, and that I would put her in his charge conjointly with
Open11CHAPTER XI: _Lucy Westenra’s Diary._
CHAPTER XI: _Lucy Westenra’s Diary._ from Dracula. 12 September.--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr. Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He positively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been right, for I feel comfort from them already. Somehow, I do not dread being alone to-night, and I can go to sleep without fear. I shall not mind any flapping outside the window. Oh, the terrible struggle that I
Open12CHAPTER XII: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XII: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY from Dracula. 18 September.--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early. Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while, finding no response, I knocked and rang again; still no answer. I cursed the laziness of the servants that they should lie abed at such an
Open13CHAPTER XIII: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_.
CHAPTER XIII: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_. from Dracula. The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and her mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted--or blessed--with something of his own obsequious suavity. Even the woman who performed the last offices for the dead remarked to me, in a confidential, brother-professional way, when she had come out from
Open14CHAPTER XIV: MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER XIV: MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL from Dracula. 23 September.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible things; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the responsibility of his new position. I knew he would be true to himself, and now how proud I am to see my Jonathan rising to the height of his advancement and keeping pace in all ways with the duties that
Open15CHAPTER XV: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_.
CHAPTER XV: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_. from Dracula. For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to
Open16CHAPTER XVI: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_
CHAPTER XVI: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_ from Dracula. It was just a quarter before twelve o’clock when we got into the churchyard over the low wall. The night was dark with occasional gleams of moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across the sky. We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly in front as he led the way. When we had come close to the tomb I looked well at Arthur, for I feared that the proximity to a place laden
Open17CHAPTER XVII: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_
CHAPTER XVII: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_ from Dracula. When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram waiting for
Open18CHAPTER XVIII: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XVIII: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY from Dracula. 30 September.--I got home at five o’clock, and found that Godalming and Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript of the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife had made and arranged. Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the carriers’ men, of whom Dr. Hennessey had written to me. Mrs. Harker gave us a cup of tea, and I can honestly say that, for the first
Open19CHAPTER XIX: JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER XIX: JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL from Dracula. 1 October, 5 a. m.--I went with the party to the search with an easy mind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am so glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work. Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at all; but now that her work is done, and that it is due to her energy and brains and foresight that the whole story is put together in such a
Open20CHAPTER XX: JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER XX: JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL from Dracula. 1 October, evening.--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I learned, however, from his wife, who seemed a decent, poor soul, that he was only the assistant to Smollet, who of the two mates was the
Open21CHAPTER XXI: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XXI: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY from Dracula. 3 October.--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well as I can remember it, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I can recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must
Open22CHAPTER XXII: JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER XXII: JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL from Dracula. 3 October.--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It is now six o’clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and take something to eat; for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are agreed that if we do not eat we cannot work our best. Our best will be, God knows, required to-day. I must keep writing at every chance, for I dare not stop to think. All, big and little, must go down; perhaps at the
Open23CHAPTER XXIII: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XXIII: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY from Dracula. 3 October.--The time seemed terribly long whilst we were waiting for the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep our minds active by using them all the time. I could see his beneficent purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker. The poor fellow is overwhelmed in a misery that is appalling to see. Last night he was a frank, happy-looking man, with strong,
Open24CHAPTER XXIV: DR. SEWARD’S PHONOGRAPH DIARY, SPOKEN BY VAN HELSING
CHAPTER XXIV: DR. SEWARD’S PHONOGRAPH DIARY, SPOKEN BY VAN HELSING from Dracula. You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our search--if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we seek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of her to-day. This is your best and most holiest office. This day nothing can find him here. Let me tell you that so you will know what we four know already, for I have tell them. He, our enemy, have gone away; he have gone
Open25CHAPTER XXV: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY
CHAPTER XXV: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY from Dracula. 11 October, Evening.--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he says he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record
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CHAPTER XXVI: DR. SEWARD’S DIARY from Dracula. 29 October.--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last night we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us had done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour, and opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our journey, and for our work when we get to Galatz. When the usual time came round Mrs. Harker prepared herself for her hypnotic effort; and after a
Open27CHAPTER XXVII: MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
CHAPTER XXVII: MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL from Dracula. 1 November.--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The horses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go willingly their full stage at best speed. We have now had so many changes and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to think that the journey will be an easy one. Dr. Van Helsing is laconic; he tells the farmers that he is hurrying to Bistritz, and pays them
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