Hello there, before we begin, just a couple of Latin translations for you, because Van Helsing

uses a couple of Latin phrases in the chapter and you may not know Latin particularly well.

So, Festinolente means literally make haste slowly or hasten slowly and the other is note of Bene which we often see in

modern texts and letters and whatnot abbreviated to N.B. And it means note well or take note. And that's it. I hope you enjoy the chapter.

Dracula. Dracula by Bram Stoker, Mike Bennett. Chapter 23 Dr. Seward's Diary

3rd October

The time seemed terribly long whilst we were waiting for the coming of Godalming and Quincy Morris.

The professor tried to keep our minds active by using them all the time.

I could see his beneficial purpose by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker.

The poor fellow is overwhelmed in a misery that is appalling to see.

Last night he was a frank, happy-looking man with strong youthful face, full of energy and with dark brown hair.

Today he is a drawn haggard old man whose white hair matches well with the hollow burning eyes

and grief-written lines of his face. His energy is still intact. In fact, he is like a living flame. This

may yet be his salvation, for if all go well, it will tie him over the despairing period.

He will then, in a kind of way, wake up again to the realities of life.

Poor fellow, I thought my own trouble was bad enough, but his. The

Professor knows this well enough and is doing his best to keep his mind active.

What he has been saying was, under the circumstances, of absorbing interest, so well as I could

remember, here it is.

I have studied over and over again since they came into my hands all the papers relating to this

monster, and the more I have studied, the greater seems the necessity to utterly stamp him out.

All through, there are signs of his advance, not only of his power, but of his knowledge of it.

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