1 He mumbled out that the money had been sent in a letter, and that was all he knew.
2 She then rose and dried her eyes, and taking a crucifix from her neck offered it to me.
3 It takes a lot of water, and running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear.
4 At three to-morrow the diligence will start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you.
5 All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind.
6 It was on the dark side of twilight when we got to Bistritz, which is a very interesting old place.
7 He and his wife, the old lady who had received me, looked at each other in a frightened sort of way.
8 Fifty years ago a series of great fires took place, which made terrible havoc on five separate occasions.
9 Finally she went down on her knees and implored me not to go; at least to wait a day or two before starting.
10 I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty.
11 I trust that your journey from London has been a happy one, and that you will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land.
12 Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets.
13 There was a dog howling all night under my window, which may have had something to do with it; or it may have been the paprika, for I had to drink up all the water in my carafe, and was still thirsty.
14 They had all full white sleeves of some kind or other, and most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of something fluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, but of course there were petticoats under them.
15 The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow-boy hats, great baggy dirty-white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy leather belts, nearly a foot wide, all studded over with brass nails.
16 I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place.
17 Having had some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited the British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the library regarding Transylvania; it had struck me that some foreknowledge of the country could hardly fail to have some importance in dealing with a nobleman of that country.
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