1 The Herr is not expected after all.
2 It is late, and my people are not available.
3 Come in; the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest.
4 He is discreet and silent, and has grown into manhood in my service.
5 At three to-morrow the diligence will start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you.
6 He is a young man, full of energy and talent in his own way, and of a very faithful disposition.
7 It was on the dark side of twilight when we got to Bistritz, which is a very interesting old place.
8 It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
9 I was told that this road is in summertime excellent, but that it had not yet been put in order after the winter snows.
10 I am writing up this part of the diary whilst I am waiting for the coach, which is, of course, late; and the crucifix is still round my neck.
11 In this respect it is different from the general run of roads in the Carpathians, for it is an old tradition that they are not to be kept in too good order.
12 In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than it really is.
13 I think I must have fallen asleep and kept dreaming of the incident, for it seemed to be repeated endlessly, and now looking back, it is like a sort of awful nightmare.
14 I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting.
15 The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.
16 I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.
17 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.
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