Hello there, and welcome to this week's episode of Down to Sleep. This is the podcast of softly spoken

stories to help you get a good night's rest. Thank you for joining me. I hope that we can help

you get down to sleep tonight. We're going to be continuing Dracula. This is a spooky season

reading since it is October and we are approaching Halloween. I've been reading quite a few

spookier, more gothic books here on the podcast, mostly on Patreon like Jurassic Park and

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I hope that you get some good sleep tonight. Let's go ahead and tuck you in and jump back in to Dracula.

Jonathan Harker's journal continued.

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, peering out of every window that 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 me that I was helpless, I sat down quietly, as quietly

as I have ever done anything in my life.

And I began to think over what was best to be done.

I am thinking still, and as yet have come to no definite conclusion.

Of one thing only, I am certain, that it is no use making my ideas known to the Count.

He knows well that I am imprisoned, and as he has done it himself and has doubtless his own motives for it,

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