By Bram Stoker
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All evening lengthy I watched by way of her. She by no means stirred, yet slept on and on in a deep, tranquil, life-giving, health-giving sleep. Her lips have been a little bit parted, and her breast rose and fell with the regularity of a pendulum. there has been a grin on her face, and it used to be obtrusive that no undesirable desires had come to disturb her peace of brain. within the early morning her maid got here, and that i left her in her care and took myself again domestic, for i used to be apprehensive approximately many stuff. I despatched a quick twine to Van Helsing and to Arthur, telling them of the wonderful results of the operation. my very own paintings, with its manifold arrears, took me all day to transparent off; it used to be darkish while i used to be capable of inquire approximately my zoophagous sufferer. The document used to be reliable: he have been particularly quiet for the prior day and evening. A telegram got here from Van Helsing at Amsterdam when i used to be at dinner, suggesting that I may be at Hillingham this night, because it will be good to be to hand, and declaring that he used to be leaving by means of the evening mail and could sign up for me early within the morning. nine September. i used to be lovely drained and tired whilst I bought to Hillingham. for 2 nights I had rarely had a wink of sleep, and my mind used to be commencing to believe that numbness which marks cerebral exhaustion. Lucy was once up and in pleased spirits. while she shook fingers with me she regarded sharply in my face and said:— ‘No sitting up this night for you. you're tired. i'm particularly good back; certainly, i'm; and if there's to be any sitting up, it truly is I who will sit up straight with you. ’ i wouldn't argue the purpose, yet went and had my supper. Lucy got here with me, and, enlivened by means of her fascinating presence, I made an outstanding meal, and had a number of glasses of the greater than very good port. Then Lucy took me upstairs, and confirmed me a room subsequent to her personal, the place a comfortable hearth used to be burning. ‘Now,’ she acknowledged, ‘you needs to remain right here. I shall go away this door open and my door too. you could lie at the couch, for i do know that not anything might set off any of you medical professionals to visit mattress while there's a sufferer above the horizon. If i need something I shall name out, and you'll come to me immediately. ’ i couldn't yet acquiesce, for i used to be ‘dog-tired,’ and will now not have sat up had i attempted. So, on her renewing her promise to name me if she may still wish something, I lay at the couch, and forgot all approximately every little thing. LUCY WESTENRA’S DIARY nine September. i think so satisfied this night. i've been so miserably susceptible, that which will imagine and movement approximately is like feeling sunshine after an extended spell of east wind out of a metal sky. in some way Arthur feels very, very with regards to me. I appear to believe his presence hot approximately me. i guess it's that affliction and weak point are egocentric issues and switch our internal eyes and sympathy on ourselves, when wellbeing and fitness and energy supply Love rein, and in inspiration and feeling he can wander the place he wills. i do know the place my concepts are. If Arthur purely knew! My expensive, my pricey, your ears needs to tingle as you sleep, as mine do waking. Oh, the pleased remainder of final evening! How I slept, with that pricey, solid Dr Seward staring at me. And this night I shall now not worry to sleep, seeing that he's shut handy and inside name.