1 I have read your last two letters.
2 I shall write some letters home, and shall try to get them to have them posted.
3 In them I find some letters from you, which show how great friends you were and how you love her.
4 I therefore pretended to fall in with his views, and asked him what dates I should put on the letters.
5 Should the letters not carry, then the Count shall not yet know my secret or the extent of my knowledge.
6 He and I sometimes write letters in shorthand, and he is keeping a stenographic journal of his travels abroad.
7 Harker has got the letters between the consignee of the boxes at Whitby and the carriers in London who took charge of them.
8 I have given the letters; I threw them through the bars of my window with a gold piece, and made what signs I could to have them posted.
9 By the kindness of Lord Godalming, I am empowered to read her letters and papers, for I am deeply concerned about certain matters vitally important.
10 Last night one of my post-dated letters went to post, the first of that fatal series which is to blot out the very traces of my existence from the earth.
11 When I had written my two letters I sat quiet, reading a book whilst the Count wrote several notes, referring as he wrote them to some books on his table.
12 I have read your letters to poor Lucy, and know how good you are and how your husband suffer; so I pray you, if it may be, enlighten him not, lest it may harm.
13 I believe that, had I not had the chat with Harker and read the letters and the dates of his outbursts, I should have been prepared to sign for him after a brief time of observation.
14 I sank back in my seat, having just had time to replace the letters as they had been and to resume my book before the Count, holding still another letter in his hand, entered the room.
15 Then he took up my two and placed them with his own, and put by his writing materials, after which, the instant the door had closed behind him, I leaned over and looked at the letters, which were face down on the table.
16 Last night the Count asked me in the suavest tones to write three letters, one saying that my work here was nearly done, and that I should start for home within a few days, another that I was starting on the next morning from the time of the letter, and the third that I had left the castle and arrived at Bistritz.
17 He explained to me that posts were few and uncertain, and that my writing now would ensure ease of mind to my friends; and he assured me with so much impressiveness that he would countermand the later letters, which would be held over at Bistritz until due time in case chance would admit of my prolonging my stay, that to oppose him would have been to create new suspicion.
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