Dracula by Bram Stoker, read by Mike Bennett. Bannett.

Episode 13.

Chapter 13.

Dr. Seward's Diary continued.

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 swavity.

Even the woman who performed the last officers for the dead remarked to me in a confidential

brother professional way when she had come out from the death chamber.

She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir.

It's quite a privilege to attend on her.

It's not too much to say that she will do credit to our establishment.

I noticed that Van Helsing never kept far away.

This was possible from the disordered state of things in the household. There were no relatives at hand and as Arthur had

to be back the next day to attend at his father's funeral, we were unable to notify anyone

who should have been bidden.

Under the circumstances, Van Helsing and I took it upon ourselves to examine papers, etc.

He insisted upon looking over Lucy's papers himself.

I asked him why, for I feared that he, being a foreigner, might not be quite aware of the

English legal requirements, and so might in ignorance make some unnecessary trouble.

He answered me, I know, I know, you forget that I'm a lawyer as well as a doctor, but this is not altogether for the law. You knew that when you

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