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56 | 345_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | They get to the tomb and open the coffin. It's empty. Van Helsing tells Arthur and Quincey that they've opened it twice before--the first time it was empty, the second Lucy was there, looking intact . They go back outside and wait. Van Helsing puts a communion wafer in the door of the tomb so that vampire Lucy won't be... | [
"It was just a quarter before twelve o'clock when we got into the\nchurchyard over the low wall. The night was dark with occasional gleams\nof moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across\nthe sky. We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly\nin front as he led the way. When... |
57 | 345_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mina and Jonathan are on their way to Dr. Seward's house . Van Helsing gives Dr. Seward a copy of Mina and Jonathan's journals to read before the couple arrives. When Mina gets there, she sees Dr. Seward making a diary entry on his phonograph . She gets all excited and asks to hear it say something--perhaps something a... | [
"When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram\nwaiting for him:--",
"\"Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.--MINA\n HARKER.\"",
"The Professor was delighted. \"Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina,\" he said,\n\"pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must... |
58 | 345_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mina asks to see Renfield, and Dr. Seward allows it. Renfield is very polite to her. He advises her not to stay in Dr. Seward's house during her visit to London, but won't tell her why. Afterwards, Van Helsing joins them again. He thinks "Madam Mina" is the awesomest woman in the world. He even compliments her so far a... | [
"_30 September._--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming\nand Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript\nof the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife\nhad made and arranged. Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the\ncarriers' men, of whom Dr... |
59 | 345_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Quincey and Van Helsing ask why Seward didn't allow Renfield to go, and Seward says he was afraid Renfield wanted to go help Dracula somehow. They use a skeleton key to get into Carfax. Van Helsing hands out crucifixes and pieces of blessed communion wafers. They go into the chapel to check things out. Dracula hasn't c... | [
"_1 October, 5 a. m._--I went with the party to the search with an easy\nmind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am\nso glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work.\nSomehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at\nall; but now that her work is ... |
60 | 345_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jonathan goes to visit one of the two delivery guys who picked up boxes from Carfax the day Renfield attacked them. After paying the guy some money as a bribe, Jonathan learns how many boxes they picked up and moved. They moved nine boxes to a house in Piccadilly . The house was recently sold, and Jonathan asks the law... | [
"_1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal\nGreen, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The\nvery prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had\nproved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I\nlearned, however, from his ... |
61 | 345_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Dr. Seward gets to Renfield's room, he finds the patient lying in a puddle of blood. Renfield looks like his face got smashed up and his back is broken. Dr. Seward sends for Van Helsing, who comes at once, bringing his surgical case. Renfield's skull is fractured, so they want to "trephine" to relieve the pressure... | [
"_3 October._--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well\nas I can remember it, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I\ncan recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must proceed.",
"When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his\nleft side in a glittering pool of ... |
62 | 345_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jonathan is obviously upset about Mina, and writes in his journal to keep from going crazy. After going over what happened to Renfield to make sure that everyone was up to speed , they start discussing Mina's condition. Mina is going to be kept in the loop again. She says that if she feels herself getting vampire-y, sh... | [
"_3 October._--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It\nis now six o'clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and\ntake something to eat; for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are agreed\nthat if we do not eat we cannot work our best. Our best will be, God\nknows, required to-day. I must... |
63 | 345_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Seward notes that Jonathan's brown hair has turned white overnight from the shock of what happened to Mina. Van Helsing, meanwhile, has been studying up on Dracula's life--his real life, hundreds of years ago. Apparently, our undead friend was quite the scholar in his day. But, Van Helsing insists, his brain stoppe... | [
"_3 October._--The time seemed terrible long whilst we were waiting for\nthe coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep\nour minds active by using them all the time. I could see his beneficent\npurpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker. The poor fellow is overw... |
64 | 345_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Van Helsing leaves a message for Jonathan on Dr. Seward's phonograph that he should stay with "Madam Mina" to protect her while the rest of them go after Dracula. Mina is relieved to hear that Dracula has left the country. Jonathan and Mina work hard to keep from thinking about the future: They read and reread the jour... | [
"This to Jonathan Harker.",
"You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our\nsearch--if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we\nseek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of her to-day. This is your best and most holiest office. This day nothing can find him\nher... |
65 | 345_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That evening, Mina calls them all together around sunset . She asks them to promise that they'll kill her if she gets vampire-y. They all promise, even Jonathan. Then she asks them to read the burial service to her, in case she's too vampire-y in the future to have it read at her funeral. Jonathan reads it, and everyon... | [
"_11 October, Evening._--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he\nsays he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept.",
"I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs.\nHarker a little before the time of sunset. We have of late come to\nunderstand that sunrise a... |
66 | 345_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That morning when Van Helsing hypnotizes Mina, she doesn't hear waves, just oars dipping in water and men calling to each other. Then she says that Dracula has gotten out of his box of dirt--but he's still on the boat, not on shore. While hypnotized, Mina says that Dracula is back on some kind of boat, but that's all s... | [
"_29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last\nnight we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us\nhad done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour,\nand opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our journey, and\nfor our work when we get to... |
67 | 345_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mina says that they're traveling quickly. She loves what she sees of the countryside and its people. She notices how superstitious they all are. Mina takes a turn driving the carriage so that Van Helsing can sleep a bit. They'll reach the Borgo Pass by morning. Van Helsing is worried about Mina. She seems lethargic and... | [
"_1 November._--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The\nhorses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go\nwillingly their full stage at best speed. We have now had so many\nchanges and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to\nthink that the journey will be an... |
41 | 345_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This novel is not told in a straightforward, chronological, omniscient manner, like many nineteenth-century novels. Instead, it is composed of a collage of letters, journal entries and diary jottings, in addition to a portion of a ship's log, various newspaper clippings, and even a "phonograph diary." Since the story i... | [
"_3 May. Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at\nVienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an\nhour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I\ngot of it from the train and the little I could walk through the\nstreets. I feared to go very f... |
68 | 345_chapters_2-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dracula's castle is described, like almost everything else, in precise detail. Harker notes the castle's great round arches, the immense iron-studded stone doors, the rattling chains, and the clanking of massive bolts, and he compares the scene with a nightmare. Dracula himself is as mysterious as his castle is. He is ... | [
"_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully\nawake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In\nthe gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark\nways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than\nit really is. I have not y... |
69 | 345_chapters_5-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene abruptly shifts from Transylvania to London, and the story of Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra is introduced. The story in the following few chapters is presented through a series of letters between Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra, and also through journal entries of various characters, as well as by newspaper art... | [
"\"_9 May._",
"\"My dearest Lucy,--",
"\"Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed\nwith work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together\nfreely and build our castles in the air. I have been wor... |
70 | 345_chapters_7-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Utilizing the narrative device of a newspaper clipping , the story of the landing of Count Dracula's ship is presented. The report indicates that the recent storm, one of the worst storms on record, was responsible for the shipwreck of a strange Russian vessel. The article also mentions several observations which indic... | [
"From a Correspondent.",
"_Whitby_.",
"One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been\nexperienced here, with results both strange and unique. The weather had\nbeen somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of\nAugust. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the ... |
71 | 345_chapters_9-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In a letter from Budapest, Mina tells Lucy that she has arrived safely and that she has found Jonathan Harker greatly changed. He is only a shadow of his former self, and he remembers very little of what has happened to him; he suffered a terrible shock, and his brain has a mental block against whatever caused his pres... | [
"\"My dearest Lucy,--",
"\"I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here. I feel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except that I knew I wa... |
72 | 345_chapters_11-13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the 12th of September, Lucy is perplexed by the presence of the garlic flowers, but she has such trust in Van Helsing that she is not frightened to fall asleep that night. In Dr. Seward's diary, we learn that he picked up Van Helsing and went to see Lucy the next day. They met Mrs. Westenra in the hall and discovere... | [
"_12 September._--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr.\nVan Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He\npositively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been\nright, for I feel comfort from them already. Somehow, I do not dread\nbeing alone to-night, and I can... |
73 | 345_chapters_14-16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mina decides to transcribe the journal which Jonathan kept at the Castle Dracula in Transylvania. On the 24th of September, she receives a letter from Dr. Van Helsing asking her if he may discuss Lucy's illness with her. Mina agrees to see him and, that day, Van Helsing arrives. This is the first time that Mina has met... | [
"_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that\nhe has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible\nthings; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the\nresponsibility of his new position. I knew he would be true to himself,\nand now how proud I am to... |
74 | 345_chapters_17-19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Seward's diary continues sometime later, and he details for us his first meeting with Mina Harker. Mina, he says, will travel with Seward to Seward's asylum, where she will stay as a guest. In her journal, Mina details the discussion which she and Seward had concerning Lucy's death. Mina agrees to type out Seward's... | [
"When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram\nwaiting for him:--",
"\"Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.--MINA\n HARKER.\"",
"The Professor was delighted. \"Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina,\" he said,\n\"pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must... |
75 | 345_chapters_20-23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jonathan, through his persistent investigations, discovers the whereabouts of twelve more of the boxes of earth: Two groups of six were deposited at two different places in London. Jonathan assumes that it is the Count's plan to scatter the boxes throughout all of London. We should recall that there were twenty-nine bo... | [
"_1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal\nGreen, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The\nvery prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had\nproved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I\nlearned, however, from his ... |
76 | 345_chapters_24-25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Van Helsing thinks that Jonathan Harker should stay in England with his wife, since he now knows that Dracula is returning to Transylvania. Jonathan Harker expresses in his journal how happy Mina is that Dracula is returning to Transylvania, but when Harker looks at the terrible mark on Mina's forehead , he is reminded... | [
"This to Jonathan Harker.",
"You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our\nsearch--if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we\nseek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of her to-day. This is your best and most holiest office. This day nothing can find him\nher... |
77 | 345_chapters_26-27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the 29th day of October, Dr. Seward records that Mina, under hypnosis, can hear and distinguish very little, and that the things which she does hear -- such as the lowing of cattle -- indicate that Dracula's coffin is now being moved up-river. Jonathan Harker records on October 30th that the captain of the ship whic... | [
"_29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last\nnight we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us\nhad done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour,\nand opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our journey, and\nfor our work when we get to... |
41 | 345_chapter_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dracula begins with the diary kept by Jonathan Harker--an English solicitor, or lawyer--as he makes his way from England to Eastern Europe. Embarking on his first professional assignment as a solicitor, Harker is traveling to the castle of Count Dracula, a Transylvanian nobleman. Harker hopes to conclude a real estate ... | [
"_3 May. Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at\nVienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an\nhour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I\ngot of it from the train and the little I could walk through the\nstreets. I feared to go very f... |
42 | 345_chapter_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jonathan Harker stands outside Dracula's remarkable castle, wondering what sort of adventure he has gotten himself into. After a long wait, the count appears and welcomes Harker. Clad in black, he is a tall old man, who is clean-shaven aside from a long, white moustache. When the two shake hands, Harker is impressed by... | [
"_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully\nawake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In\nthe gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark\nways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than\nit really is. I have not y... |
43 | 345_chapter_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That night, Harker questions his host about the history of Transylvania. Dracula speaks enthusiastically of the country's people and battles, and he boasts of the glories of his family name. Over the course of the next several days, the count, in turn, grills Harker about matters of English life and law. He tells Harke... | [
"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 and peering out of\nevery window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my\nhelplessness overpowered all other feelings. When I look back after a\nfew hours I think I must have bee... |
44 | 345_chapter_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harker wakes up in his own bed, unsure whether the previous night's experience was a dream or reality. Several days later, Dracula asks Harker write three letters to his fiancee and employer, and to date them June 12, 19, and 29, even though it is currently only May 19. The count instructs Harker to write that he has l... | [
"I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must\nhave carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but\ncould not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, there were\ncertain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by\nin a manner which was not my h... |
45 | 345_chapter_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter V consists of several letters and a diary entry. In England, Mina Murray and her friend, Lucy Westenra, exchange letters about their respective romances. Mina is an assistant schoolmistress whose desire to be useful to her future husband has led her to study shorthand and typewriting. She happily reports that h... | [
"\"_9 May._",
"\"My dearest Lucy,--",
"\"Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed\nwith work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together\nfreely and build our castles in the air. I have been wor... |
46 | 345_chapter_vi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In her journal, Mina describes her visit with Lucy in the picturesque town of Whitby, on the northeast coast of England, and the ruined abbey there that is reputed to be haunted. Mr. Swales, an elderly resident who befriends the two girls and tells them stories about the town, scoffs at such legends. Mr. Swales asserts... | [
"_24 July. Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and\nlovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in\nwhich they have rooms. This is a lovely place. The little river, the\nEsk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the\nharbour. A great viaduct runs acr... |
47 | 345_chapter_vii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two newspaper clippings indicate that the ship Mina and Mr. Swales have seen, a vessel called the Demeter, later washes up on the shore at Whitby during a terrific storm. Its crew is nowhere to be found, while its captain, dead and clasping a crucifix, is discovered tied to the wheel. When the ship runs aground, a huge... | [
"From a Correspondent.",
"_Whitby_.",
"One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been\nexperienced here, with results both strange and unique. The weather had\nbeen somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of\nAugust. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the ... |
48 | 345_chapter_viii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On August 10, Mina awakens to find Lucy's bed empty. She goes outside to find Lucy and sees her in the churchyard, reclining on her favorite bench with a dark figure bending over her. As Mina approaches, the figure looks toward her, exposing a pale face and gleaming red eyes. By the time Mina reaches Lucy, however, the... | [
"_Same day, 11 o'clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I\nhad made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night. We had a lovely\nwalk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some\ndear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse,\nand frightened the wits... |
49 | 345_chapter_ix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mina writes from Buda-Pest, telling Lucy that Jonathan has changed greatly. He is "a wreck of himself" and remembers nothing of his time in Transylvania. The nun tending to Jonathan confides in Mina that he often raves deliriously about unspeakable things. Jonathan is still in possession of his diary and knows that the... | [
"\"My dearest Lucy,--",
"\"I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here. I feel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except that I knew I wa... |
50 | 345_chapter_x | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Seward and Holmwood are concerned about Lucy's suddenly failing health. When Van Helsing arrives to find Lucy terribly pale and unable to breathe easily, he transfuses Holmwood's blood into Lucy. The doctors examine the punctures on Lucy's neck. Though Seward is convinced that these wounds caused her severe loss of blo... | [
"\"_6 September._",
"\"My dear Art,--",
"\"My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit.\nThere is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs.\nWestenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me\nprofessionally about her. I took advantage of the opportunity,... |
51 | 345_chapter_xi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the morning, Van Helsing and Dr. Seward return to the Westenra residence. They are greeted by Lucy's mother, who tells them that during the night she removed all the "horrible, strong-smelling flowers" from Lucy's room and opened the windows to let in fresh air. After Mrs. Westenra leaves the room, Van Helsing nearl... | [
"_12 September._--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr.\nVan Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He\npositively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been\nright, for I feel comfort from them already. Somehow, I do not dread\nbeing alone to-night, and I can... |
52 | 345_chapter_xii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrative returns to Seward's diary entries. Arriving at the Westenras' the next day, Van Helsing and Seward find the scene of destruction: the maids unconscious on the dining room floor, Mrs. Westenra dead, and Lucy once again at death's door, with terrible, mangled wounds at her neck. Neither of the men can spare... | [
"_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early.\nKeeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently\nand rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her\nmother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while,\nfinding no response, I knocked an... |
53 | 345_chapter_xiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Seward's diary continues, as he describes Lucy's burial. Before the funeral, Van Helsing covers the coffin and body with garlic and places a crucifix in Lucy's mouth. He tells a confused Seward that after the funeral, they must cut off Lucy's head and take out her heart. The next day, however, Van Helsing discovers tha... | [
"The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and\nher mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly\nformalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were\nafflicted--or blessed--with something of his own obsequious suavity.\nEven the woman who performed the last ... |
54 | 345_chapter_xiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Transcribing her husband's journal, Mina is horrified by its contents. When Van Helsing visits Mina in order to discuss the events leading up to Lucy's death, she is so impressed that she gives him Jonathan's diary to read. Van Helsing reads the diary and returns to see the couple at breakfast the next day. Van Helsing... | [
"_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that\nhe has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible\nthings; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the\nresponsibility of his new position. I knew he would be true to himself,\nand now how proud I am to... |
55 | 345_chapter_xv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Seward is appalled by Van Helsing's suggestion that Lucy is in some way responsible for the rash of wounded children. However, due to his respect for the elder doctor, he accompanies Van Helsing on his investigation. The two men visit one of the wounded children and find that the marks on the child's neck are identical... | [
"For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life\nstruck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to\nhim:--",
"\"Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?\" He raised his head and looked at me, and\nsomehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. \"Would I were!\" he\nsai... |
56 | 345_chapter_xvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That night, the four men go to Lucy's grave and find it empty. Van Helsing seals the door of the tomb with Communion wafers to prevent the vampire Lucy from reentering. The men then hide in wait. Eventually, a figure appears, dressed entirely in white and carrying a child. It is Lucy--or rather, a monster that looks li... | [
"It was just a quarter before twelve o'clock when we got into the\nchurchyard over the low wall. The night was dark with occasional gleams\nof moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across\nthe sky. We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly\nin front as he led the way. When... |
57 | 345_chapter_xvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Van Helsing's urging, Jonathan and Mina Harker come to stay with Seward at the asylum. Mina transcribes Seward's diary with the typewriter and notes its account of Lucy's death. Meanwhile, Seward reads the Harkers' journals, realizing for the first time that Dracula may well be his next-door neighbor and that there ... | [
"When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram\nwaiting for him:--",
"\"Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.--MINA\n HARKER.\"",
"The Professor was delighted. \"Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina,\" he said,\n\"pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must... |
58 | 345_chapter_xviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | With Seward's permission, Mina visits Renfield. The madman frantically swallows his collection of flies and spiders before she enters, but is extremely polite and seems rational in her presence. Van Helsing arrives at the asylum. Pleased to see that Seward's diaries and letters have been typed and placed in order, he c... | [
"_30 September._--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming\nand Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript\nof the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife\nhad made and arranged. Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the\ncarriers' men, of whom Dr... |
59 | 345_chapter_xix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The men make the journey to Carfax, arming themselves with holy objects for protection. There is no sign of Dracula in the chapel, but there is a terrible stench, and the men find twenty-nine of the original fifty boxes of earth. To the men's horror, rats begin to fill the chapel. The men use a whistle to summon dogs t... | [
"_1 October, 5 a. m._--I went with the party to the search with an easy\nmind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am\nso glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work.\nSomehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at\nall; but now that her work is ... |
60 | 345_chapter_xx | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harker's investigations reveal that twelve of the remaining boxes of earth were deposited in two houses in London. He traces the remaining nine boxes to a house in Piccadilly, a London suburb. Harker's companions worry over how they will manage to break into a house in such a highly populated area. Seward chronicles ra... | [
"_1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal\nGreen, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The\nvery prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had\nproved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I\nlearned, however, from his ... |
61 | 345_chapter_xxi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dying, Renfield admits to the other men that Dracula often visited him, promising him flies, spiders, and other living creatures from which to gain strength in return for Renfield's obedience. Later, when Mina visited him, Renfield noted her paleness and realized that Dracula had been "taking the life out of her. He gr... | [
"_3 October._--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well\nas I can remember it, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I\ncan recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must proceed.",
"When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his\nleft side in a glittering pool of ... |
62 | 345_chapter_xxii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In his journal, Harker recounts the end of Renfield's story: before escaping the asylum, the count pays one last visit to the lunatic, breaking his neck and killing him. Harker and his compatriots go to Carfax the next day and place a Communion wafer in each of Dracula's boxes of earth, rendering them unfit for the vam... | [
"_3 October._--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It\nis now six o'clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and\ntake something to eat; for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are agreed\nthat if we do not eat we cannot work our best. Our best will be, God\nknows, required to-day. I must... |
63 | 345_chapter_xxiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The men obtain keys to Dracula's other houses around the city. Holmwood and Morris hurry off to sterilize the twelve boxes that are stored in London, while Harker and Van Helsing leave to do the same to the boxes in Piccadilly. Reaching Piccadilly, the men find only eight boxes--the ninth is missing. Mina sends a messa... | [
"_3 October._--The time seemed terrible long whilst we were waiting for\nthe coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep\nour minds active by using them all the time. I could see his beneficent\npurpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker. The poor fellow is overw... |
64 | 345_chapter_xxiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Van Helsing's band discovers that the count has boarded a ship named the Czarina Catherine, which is bound for Varna, the same Russian port from which Dracula sailed three months before. Van Helsing delivers an impassioned speech in which he declares it necessary to defeat Dracula for the good of humankind. He claims t... | [
"This to Jonathan Harker.",
"You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our\nsearch--if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we\nseek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of her to-day. This is your best and most holiest office. This day nothing can find him\nher... |
65 | 345_chapter_xxv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Before departing, Mina asks the group to pledge that they will, for the sake of her soul, destroy her if should she transform into a vampire. The men take a solemn vow to comply with Mina's wishes. On October 12, they board the Orient Express and make their way to Varna, where Van Helsing arranges to board the Czarina ... | [
"_11 October, Evening._--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he\nsays he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept.",
"I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs.\nHarker a little before the time of sunset. We have of late come to\nunderstand that sunrise a... |
66 | 345_chapter_xxvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Seward writes a diary entry while on the train from Varna to Galatz. He notes that Mina's trances reveal less and less, but are still of some value. Mina hears the sound of lapping water, so the band knows that Dracula remains somewhere close to water. The men hope to reach Galatz before the box is unloaded, but they a... | [
"_29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last\nnight we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us\nhad done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour,\nand opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our journey, and\nfor our work when we get to... |
67 | 345_chapter_xxvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Van Helsing pens a memorandum to Seward, writing that he and Mina have reached the Borgo Pass. As they climb the trail toward the castle, Van Helsing finds that he can no longer hypnotize Mina. That night, fearing for her safety, he encircles her with a ring of crumbled holy Communion wafers. The three female vampires ... | [
"_1 November._--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The\nhorses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go\nwillingly their full stage at best speed. We have now had so many\nchanges and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to\nthink that the journey will be an... |
41 | 345_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter 1 starts with the main persona, Jonathan Harker; a solicitor clerk making a journey to Transylvania at the behest of a client Count Dracula. Jonathan starts making entries in his journal on May 3. He leaves Munich and arrives at Vienna Budapest. He stops at Hotel Royale, where he has dinner but his night is res... | [
"_3 May. Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at\nVienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an\nhour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I\ngot of it from the train and the little I could walk through the\nstreets. I feared to go very f... |
42 | 345_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jonathan Harker continues his journal. On May 5, Jonathan Harker recalls that his first glance of the castle is very grim. A tall old man with a long white mustache, clad in black greets him in excellent English, but with a strange accent. His touch is as cold as ice. He is Count Dracula. Jonathan is relieved of all hi... | [
"_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully\nawake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In\nthe gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark\nways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than\nit really is. I have not y... |
43 | 345_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jonathan Harkers journal continues. He realizes he is a prisoner and he is panic-struck. He rushes up and down looking for an exit point only to be denied. The Count and Jonathan meet and have a discussion on Transylvania. Jonathan is horrified when he realizes he is a prisoner, but manages to talk to Dracula calmly. D... | [
"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 and peering out of\nevery window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my\nhelplessness overpowered all other feelings. When I look back after a\nfew hours I think I must have bee... |
44 | 345_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jonathan Harkers journal continues to record the events. He finds himself in his own bed. The Count has carried him back and undressed him. Luckily his diary has not been found. On May 18, he wants to check Count Draculas door but the door is fastened from inside 19th May. The Count has asked Jonathan to write three le... | [
"I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must\nhave carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but\ncould not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, there were\ncertain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by\nin a manner which was not my h... |
45 | 345_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter comprises of a series of letters. The first is from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Westenra, which dated 9th May. She writes that she was sorry for the delay in writing as an assistant schoolmistress and that she is very busy. She was practicing shorthand. She writes to her in shorthand and vice versa. She ... | [
"\"_9 May._",
"\"My dearest Lucy,--",
"\"Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed\nwith work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together\nfreely and build our castles in the air. I have been wor... |
46 | 345_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter begins with Mina recording entries in her journal. On July 24, she goes to meet Lucy at her place in Whitby, which is a very picturesque place near a little river, the Esk. She meets an old man who brushes off her queries of bells at sea and the White Lady. On August 1, Mina and Lucy meet some old people w... | [
"_24 July. Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and\nlovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in\nwhich they have rooms. This is a lovely place. The little river, the\nEsk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the\nharbour. A great viaduct runs acr... |
47 | 345_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A paper cutting of a news column is pasted on Minas journal. It reports of a great storm, which struck the seas. A foreign schooner with all sails set docked in the storm almost unscrewed. A strange fog set in which prevented any clear sight. As the fog melted in the light of a searchlight a corpse was sighted in the s... | [
"From a Correspondent.",
"_Whitby_.",
"One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been\nexperienced here, with results both strange and unique. The weather had\nbeen somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of\nAugust. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the ... |
48 | 345_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mina continues to note in her diary that though it is a normal day, Mina is worried about Jonathan. On August 11, at 3 a.m., Mina gets up in the dark when she realizes Lucy is missing. Lucy has sleepwalked in her nightdress. Mina rushes outside and in the moonlight sees Lucy on their favorite seat. For a moment it look... | [
"_Same day, 11 o'clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I\nhad made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night. We had a lovely\nwalk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some\ndear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse,\nand frightened the wits... |
49 | 345_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter is again a series of letters. The first is from Mina to Lucy, who writes on 24th August from Budapest. She tells about an ailing Jonathan who tells of a terrible tale. He hands his diary to Mina who keeps it carefully. They get married in the hospital itself. Lucy writes back and congratulates Mina and tel... | [
"\"My dearest Lucy,--",
"\"I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here. I feel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except that I knew I wa... |
50 | 345_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter starts with a letter, dated September 6, to Arthur Holmwood from Dr. Seward. It tells about Lucys downward slide in health. Abraham Van Helsing has returned to see her. Dr. Seward records in his diary that how he recounts Lucys symptoms to the Professor. The Professor looks grave. He sees her and is appall... | [
"\"_6 September._",
"\"My dear Art,--",
"\"My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit.\nThere is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs.\nWestenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me\nprofessionally about her. I took advantage of the opportunity,... |
51 | 345_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy records in her journal that she feels she can sleep better. Dr. Seward diary records how Mrs. Westenra tells the professor that Lucy is bitter but because she has opened the windows and removed the garlic. Professor rushes up, Lucy looks bloodless again. He gives her blood. He also tells Mrs. Westenra not to remov... | [
"_12 September._--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr.\nVan Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He\npositively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been\nright, for I feel comfort from them already. Somehow, I do not dread\nbeing alone to-night, and I can... |
52 | 345_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Seward's diary continues to note that, on 18 th of September, Van Helsing and Dr. Seward rush up to find Mrs. Westenra dead, and Lucy barely alive. The maids have all fainted. Quincey Morris enters and he gives blood to her. Arthur is informed about Mrs. Westenras death for the first time. Van Helsing tells Dr. Sew... | [
"_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early.\nKeeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently\nand rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her\nmother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while,\nfinding no response, I knocked an... |
53 | 345_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucys funeral is arranged. According to legal matters, as both Lucy and Mrs. Westenra die, bereft of heir, the estate passes to Arthur. Van Helsing wants to perform an operation on Lucy the next morning. He puts a crucifix on the coffin but the very next morning the crucifix disappears. In the meantime, Jonathan sees D... | [
"The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and\nher mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly\nformalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were\nafflicted--or blessed--with something of his own obsequious suavity.\nEven the woman who performed the last ... |
54 | 345_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Minas journal continues to note. Jonathan is in a poor state of mind. Van Helsing writes a letter asking Mina to meet him regarding Lucy. She meets him and then tells about Jonathan tale and gives him Jonathans diary. Van Helsing writes back that whatever Jonathan has seen is true. Jonathan is rejuvenated. Dr. Seward s... | [
"_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that\nhe has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible\nthings; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the\nresponsibility of his new position. I knew he would be true to himself,\nand now how proud I am to... |
55 | 345_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Seward continues to note in his diary. He is enraged that Lucy could be the woman in black who attacks children. They examine the child who is attacked by the lady in black. He has similar pinpoints on his throat. Dr. Seward and the Professor go to the churchyard where Lucy is buried. Her coffin is empty. The child... | [
"For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life\nstruck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to\nhim:--",
"\"Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?\" He raised his head and looked at me, and\nsomehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. \"Would I were!\" he\nsai... |
56 | 345_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At midnight, the land of Dr. Seward, Van Helsing, Arthur and holy hosts on the tomb of Lucy when they see a white figure with a child Quincey Morris proceed the graveyard to open the coffin. The coffin was empty. Van Helsing explains the strange happenings to the others. They put the holy hosts on the tomb of Lucy and ... | [
"It was just a quarter before twelve o'clock when we got into the\nchurchyard over the low wall. The night was dark with occasional gleams\nof moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across\nthe sky. We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly\nin front as he led the way. When... |
57 | 345_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Seward continues to note in his diary. Mina Harker telegrams that she is coming by train and she has important news. Van Helsing, who is a great admirer of her, is delighted. She arrives and stays in the asylum. Dr. Seward shows her his phonograph, and she is fascinated by it. She tells them that Jonathan has seen ... | [
"When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram\nwaiting for him:--",
"\"Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.--MINA\n HARKER.\"",
"The Professor was delighted. \"Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina,\" he said,\n\"pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must... |
58 | 345_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Seward's diary continues to record. He goes over the transcripts of the diaries and letters of Jonathan and Mina Harker. Mina comes into the room and asks to see Renfield. Renfield talks to her like a polished gentleman. Van Helsing enters eager to know the results of the pursuit of Dracula. They discuss way and me... | [
"_30 September._--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming\nand Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript\nof the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife\nhad made and arranged. Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the\ncarriers' men, of whom Dr... |
59 | 345_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jonathan Harkers diary starts, with a portion of the sacred wafer each; they try and enter Draculas house in Whitby. The whole place is covered with dust and spiders. There is a faint bad odor. They find 29 boxes out of the 50 sent by Dracula. Suddenly, the whole place is filled with rats. Arthur whistles for his dogs ... | [
"_1 October, 5 a. m._--I went with the party to the search with an easy\nmind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am\nso glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work.\nSomehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at\nall; but now that her work is ... |
60 | 345_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On October 1, Jonathan notes, in his journal, of his pursuit of the other houses of Dracula. A man named Thomas Snelling leads him to Joseph Smollet, who tells him the destination of the boxes to the houses in Carfax, New Town and Bermondsey. They go pursuing the addresses. Mina, in the meantime still looks very tired.... | [
"_1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal\nGreen, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The\nvery prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had\nproved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I\nlearned, however, from his ... |
61 | 345_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Seward records that Renfield's back has been broken. He is in deep anguish and is dying. He tells them that Dracula has come from the window and has struck him. But he also divulges he has attacked Mina. The band rushes in to the Harkers chamber and finds Jonathan in a stupor, and Mina sucking the blood of Dracula... | [
"_3 October._--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well\nas I can remember it, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I\ncan recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must proceed.",
"When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his\nleft side in a glittering pool of ... |
62 | 345_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jonathan Harker continues to write his journal. He tries to make himself busy, or he feels he will go mad. Van Helsing tries to talk to Mina and console her. He tells her to be strong and resist being an Un-dead. Van Helsing puts the wafer on Minas head. She gives an agonizing yell and the wafer makes a mark on her for... | [
"_3 October._--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It\nis now six o'clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and\ntake something to eat; for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are agreed\nthat if we do not eat we cannot work our best. Our best will be, God\nknows, required to-day. I must... |
63 | 345_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Sewards diary continues to record the happenings. On the 3rd October, he tells about the appalling changes in Jonathan. Minas plight has made him haggard and desolate. Quincey Morris and Arthur come in and report that they have destroyed the other boxes. Dracula is at Carfax. He leaps out saying, "All your girls ar... | [
"_3 October._--The time seemed terrible long whilst we were waiting for\nthe coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep\nour minds active by using them all the time. I could see his beneficent\npurpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker. The poor fellow is overw... |
64 | 345_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Sewards gives strict instructions, through Van Helsing, to Jonathan telling him to stay with Mina. Count Dracula, he informs, has gone back to Transylvania as the band has destroyed his last box so thats why he has been forced to flee. He has gone by ship but Van Helsing assures him that the battle has just begun a... | [
"This to Jonathan Harker.",
"You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our\nsearch--if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we\nseek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of her to-day. This is your best and most holiest office. This day nothing can find him\nher... |
65 | 345_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On 11th of October, according to Dr. Sewards Diary, Jonathan asks Dr. Seward to check Minas health. Mina begs them to destroy her if by chance she changes totally. Filled with emotion, yet touched by her bravery, the men agree. On 15th of October, according to Jonathans journal, they leave Charring Cross on the 12 th ,... | [
"_11 October, Evening._--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he\nsays he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept.",
"I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs.\nHarker a little before the time of sunset. We have of late come to\nunderstand that sunrise a... |
66 | 345_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Sewards continues to note in his diary. On 29 th of October, he writes this note on the train from Varna to Galats. Mina is hypnotized again and reveals that the Count has reached. However, she is changing so he becomes sullen and refuses to speak. The captain of the ship reveals to Jonathan that there was trouble ... | [
"_29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last\nnight we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us\nhad done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour,\nand opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our journey, and\nfor our work when we get to... |
67 | 345_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In her journal of 1st November, Mina records that the women in the village makes the sign of the cross each time they see Mina, because of the red scar on her forehead. She has decided to wear a veil in order to avoid that. Van Helsing is worried about Mina because not only she cannot be hypnotized but also because she... | [
"_1 November._--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The\nhorses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go\nwillingly their full stage at best speed. We have now had so many\nchanges and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to\nthink that the journey will be an... |
41 | 345_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jonathan Harker, a newly minted English solicitor , travels to Transylvania in order to consult with an aristocratic client, Count Dracula, regarding the nobleman's recent purchase of an English estate. At various stages along his journey, the people he encounters regard him with a mixture of fear and sympathy somehow ... | [
"_3 May. Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at\nVienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an\nhour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I\ngot of it from the train and the little I could walk through the\nstreets. I feared to go very f... |
42 | 345_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Count Dracula greets Harker at the massive doors to the castle. Dracula is "a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and claid in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere." Dracula shows Harker to his rooms and converses with his guest as he eats; Dracula excuses... | [
"_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully\nawake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In\nthe gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark\nways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than\nit really is. I have not y... |
43 | 345_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harker continues to feel trapped in Castle Dracula. He spies Dracula making Harker's bed, confirming Harker's suspicion that he and Dracula are the only people in the castle; there are no servants. The next night, Harker has another long, late conversation with Dracula, in which the Count relates something of his famil... | [
"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 and peering out of\nevery window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my\nhelplessness overpowered all other feelings. When I look back after a\nfew hours I think I must have bee... |
44 | 345_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harker awakens in his own bed, and surmises that Dracula himself has carried him back. A few days later, Dracula asks Harker to write three letters, each one dated a few days apart, indicating that Harker is returning to England. Harker fears the letters to be some sort of ruse to convince those who know him that he st... | [
"I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must\nhave carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but\ncould not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, there were\ncertain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by\nin a manner which was not my h... |
45 | 345_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In May, as the end of another academic term nears, Miss Mina Murray, an assistant schoolmistress and the fiance of Jonathan Harker, writes to her close friend Lucy Westenra, inquiring in her postscript about "rumours... of a tall, handsome, curly-haired man." Lucy writes back to tell Mina about this gentleman, one Mr.... | [
"\"_9 May._",
"\"My dearest Lucy,--",
"\"Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed\nwith work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together\nfreely and build our castles in the air. I have been wor... |
46 | 345_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Having continued his observations of and conversations with Renfield over a course of nearly three months, Dr. Seward comes to the conclusion that his patient is a "homicidal maniac," but "of a peculiar kind." He classifies Renfield as a "zoophagous maniac," who is trying to take into himself as much life as possible ... | [
"_24 July. Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and\nlovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in\nwhich they have rooms. This is a lovely place. The little river, the\nEsk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the\nharbour. A great viaduct runs acr... |
47 | 345_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the night of August 7-8, a terrific thunderstorm gathers and breaks over Whitby. During the height of the storm, a Russian schooner, the Demeter, speeds into the harbor, and is driven ashore seemingly by the force of the storm itself. Bizarrely, a corpse is lashed to the helm: "A great awe came on all as they realiz... | [
"From a Correspondent.",
"_Whitby_.",
"One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been\nexperienced here, with results both strange and unique. The weather had\nbeen somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of\nAugust. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the ... |
48 | 345_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy continues to suffer from sleepwalking episodes. In the early morning of August 11, she leaves the room, clad only in her lingerie, and makes her way down to the "suicide seat." Mina awakens to find Lucy gone, and follows her. She catches a fleeting glimpse of some dark figure, "whether man or beast, could not tel... | [
"_Same day, 11 o'clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I\nhad made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night. We had a lovely\nwalk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some\ndear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse,\nand frightened the wits... |
49 | 345_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mina makes her way to Hungary, where she finds Jonathan, still recovering in the hospital, "only a wreck of himself. " Nevertheless, the two are married there. Jonathan solemnly implores Mina not to read the journal he kept ; Mina agrees, and seals the book with wax and her wedding ring as a sign of her intention not t... | [
"\"My dearest Lucy,--",
"\"I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here. I feel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except that I knew I wa... |
50 | 345_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Arriving in Lucy's room, Van Helsing and Seward are shocked to see how pale and weak she has become. Van Helsing prepares for an immediate blood transfusion. As he is getting ready for the operation, Holmwood arrives; glad for his arrival, for Holmwood is young and full of life and much in love with Lucy, Van Helsing t... | [
"\"_6 September._",
"\"My dear Art,--",
"\"My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit.\nThere is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs.\nWestenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me\nprofessionally about her. I took advantage of the opportunity,... |
51 | 345_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Seward and Van Helsing arrive at Lucy's home the morning of September 13 to find, much to Van Helsing's distress, that Lucy's mother, finding the smell of garlic in her daughter's room oppressive, removed the flowers from Lucy's neck while Lucy slept and also opened the bedroom window for fresh air. Finding Lucy again ... | [
"_12 September._--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr.\nVan Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He\npositively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been\nright, for I feel comfort from them already. Somehow, I do not dread\nbeing alone to-night, and I can... |
52 | 345_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Seward and Van Helsing arrive at Hillingham, fearful of what they will find. They must force their way into the house, and inside they discover the unconscious maids, Lucy and her dead mother. The wounds on Lucy's bare neck have reappeared. Van Helsing concludes that the only remedy is yet another blood transfusion; fo... | [
"_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early.\nKeeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently\nand rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her\nmother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while,\nfinding no response, I knocked an... |
53 | 345_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Morticians prepare Lucy's corpse for its burial. Van Helsing makes his own ministrations to the body, placing garlic flowers and a crucifix on it. One of the family maids, however, steals the crucifix--although without being aware of her theft. Holmwood learns that Lucy's mother has left her entire estate to him . Van ... | [
"The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and\nher mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly\nformalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were\nafflicted--or blessed--with something of his own obsequious suavity.\nEven the woman who performed the last ... |
54 | 345_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mina reads Jonathan's journal, aghast at what her new husband suffered through--though whether it was reality or a fevered delusion, she knows not, until a letter from Van Helsing leads her to fear Jonathan's ordeal actually took place. Van Helsing requests a meeting, with Mina grants. Van Helsing inquires about Lucy'... | [
"_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that\nhe has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible\nthings; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the\nresponsibility of his new position. I knew he would be true to himself,\nand now how proud I am to... |
55 | 345_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Van Helsing persuades Seward to accompany him to Lucy's grave. They go at midnight and discover her coffin empty. Also in the graveyard, they spy a child being pursued by some larger, darker figure. They find the child before its throat has been injured, and leave it by the side of the road, where a police offer locate... | [
"For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life\nstruck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to\nhim:--",
"\"Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?\" He raised his head and looked at me, and\nsomehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. \"Would I were!\" he\nsai... |
56 | 345_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Van Helsing and the men stealthily enter the churchyard shortly before midnight. They find Lucy's coffin again empty. Van Helsing relates to Arthur and Quincey what he and Seward found on their previous two visits to Lucy's grave. He also relates that he visited the grave the previous day at sundown; he put garlic over... | [
"It was just a quarter before twelve o'clock when we got into the\nchurchyard over the low wall. The night was dark with occasional gleams\nof moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across\nthe sky. We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly\nin front as he led the way. When... |
57 | 345_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While Jonathan is in Whitby, tracing the progress of the fifty boxes of earth shipped aboard the Demeter, Mina goes to the asylum to meet Seward. She listens to the phonograph rolls of Seward's diary, in order to learn more about Lucy's death, while he reads her and her husband's diaries. Jonathan returns, having learn... | [
"When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram\nwaiting for him:--",
"\"Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.--MINA\n HARKER.\"",
"The Professor was delighted. \"Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina,\" he said,\n\"pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must... |
58 | 345_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mina asks Seward if she can meet Renfield. To Seward's surprise, Renfield converses at length with Mina in a calm, quite intelligent manner, professing to understand why he was placed in Seward's asylum--"Why, I myself am an instance of a man who had a strange belief. " As Mina takes her leave, however, Renfield makes ... | [
"_30 September._--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming\nand Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript\nof the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife\nhad made and arranged. Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the\ncarriers' men, of whom Dr... |
59 | 345_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the night of September 30-October 1, the men investigate the chapel at Carfax, leaving Mina behind to sleep, all of them being agreed that it is best for Mina not to become involved in the quest to destroy Dracula, nor even to know all the specifics of their task. Van Helsing equips each of the men with a crucifix,... | [
"_1 October, 5 a. m._--I went with the party to the search with an easy\nmind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am\nso glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work.\nSomehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at\nall; but now that her work is ... |
60 | 345_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harker continues his search for Dracula's earthen boxes. By bribing various manual laborers who worked with the boxes with money and alcohol, he discovers where several of the boxes have gone since their arrival at Carfax; most importantly, Harker learns that nine "main heavy" boxes were removed to a house in Piccadill... | [
"_1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal\nGreen, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The\nvery prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had\nproved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I\nlearned, however, from his ... |
61 | 345_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the night of October 2-3, Dracula visits Mina for the third consecutive night. He enters her room again as a mist, and induces a stupor in Jonathan, who is in the room with Mina; she is unable to awaken her husband. Dracula drinks from Mina's neck, who finds herself unable to resist, then opens a vein in his chest a... | [
"_3 October._--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well\nas I can remember it, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I\ncan recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must proceed.",
"When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his\nleft side in a glittering pool of ... |
62 | 345_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Seward and Van Helsing report to the others that they found Renfield dead, his body bruised, his neck broken. The attendant outside Renfield's room heard at least one voice--he was unsure if he heard two--before Renfield cried out "God!" repeatedly. Planning their next actions, the men agree to include Mina in their pl... | [
"_3 October._--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It\nis now six o'clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and\ntake something to eat; for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are agreed\nthat if we do not eat we cannot work our best. Our best will be, God\nknows, required to-day. I must... |
63 | 345_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Van Helsing, Seward and Jonathan, still waiting at Dracula's house in Piccadilly, receive a telegram from Mina, informing them that she has sighted the vampire and he is headed in their direction. The next persons to arrive, however, are Arthur and Quincey, who report having found and destroyed six more earth-boxes. No... | [
"_3 October._--The time seemed terrible long whilst we were waiting for\nthe coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep\nour minds active by using them all the time. I could see his beneficent\npurpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker. The poor fellow is overw... |
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