Chapter XX JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL

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...

Chapter XV DR SEWARD’S DIARY

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 him:— ‘Dr Van Helsing, are you mad?’ He raised his head and...

Chapter XIV MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL

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...

Chapter VII Cutting from ‘The Dailygraph,’ 8 August (Pasted in Mina Murray’s Journal)

From a Correspondent Whitby. 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...

Chapter XXIV DR SEWARD’S PHONOGRAPH DIARY, SPOKEN BY VAN HELSING

This to Jonathan Harker. 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...

Chapter XVIII DR SEWARD’S DIARY

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...

Chapter XVII DR SEWARD’S DIARY

When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram waiting for him:— ‘Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.—Mina Harker.’ The Professor was delighted. ‘Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina,’ he said, ‘pearl among women! She arrive, but...

Chapter V Letter from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Westenra

‘9 May. ‘My dearest Lucy,— ‘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 walk together...

Chapter II JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL

5 May.—I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach to such a remarkable place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great...

Chapter I Jonathan Harker’s Journal (Kept in shorthand)

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...