Dracula by Bram Stoker, read by Mike Bennett.

Episode 6.

Chapter 6. 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 peers

through which the view seems somehow further away than it really is. The valley is beautifully green and it is so steep that when you are on

the high land on either side you look right across it unless you are near enough to see down.

The houses of the old town, the side away from us, are all red roofed and seemed piled up one over the other anyhow like the pictures we see of Nuremberg. Right over the town is the

ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes and which is the scene of part of Marmion

where the girl was built up in the wall. It is a most noble ruin of immense size and full of

beautiful and romantic bits. There is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows.

Between it and the town, there is another church, the parish one, round which is a big graveyard all full of tombstones. This is to my mind the nicest spot in

Whitby, for it lies right over the town and has a full view of the harbour and all up the bay to where the headland, called

the kettleness, stretches out into the sea. It descends so steeply over the harbour that part of the bank has fallen away and some of the

graves have been destroyed. In one place part of the stonework of the graves stretches out

over the sandy pathway far below. There are walks and seats

beside them through the churchyard and people go and sit there all day long looking

at the beautiful view and enjoying the breeze. I shall come and sit here

very often myself and work. Indeed I am writing now with my book on my knee and listening to the talk of three old men who are sitting beside me.

They seem to do nothing all day but sit up here and talk.

The harbour lies below me with on the far side one long granite wall stretching out into the sea with a curve outwards at the end of it in the middle of which as a lighthouse. A heavy sea wall runs along outside of it. On the near

side, the sea wall makes an elbow crooked inversely and its end two has a lighthouse. Between the two piers there is a narrow

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