1 At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you to me.
2 You cannot deceive me, my friend; I know too much, and my horses are swift.
3 It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains.
4 I was now myself looking out for the conveyance which was to take me to the Count.
5 She then rose and dried her eyes, and taking a crucifix from her neck offered it to me.
6 He and his wife, the old lady who had received me, looked at each other in a frightened sort of way.
7 Finally she went down on her knees and implored me not to go; at least to wait a day or two before starting.
8 It seemed to me that we were simply going over and over the same ground again; and so I took note of some salient point, and found that this was so.
9 There are many odd things to put down, and, lest who reads them may fancy that I dined too well before I left Bistritz, let me put down my dinner exactly.
10 It was evident that something very exciting was either happening or expected, but though I asked each passenger, no one would give me the slightest explanation.
11 When we started, the crowd round the inn door, which had by this time swelled to a considerable size, all made the sign of the cross and pointed two fingers towards me.
12 Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
13 When I asked him if he knew Count Dracula, and could tell me anything of his castle, both he and his wife crossed themselves, and, saying that they knew nothing at all, simply refused to speak further.
14 This was not very pleasant for me, just starting for an unknown place to meet an unknown man; but every one seemed so kind-hearted, and so sorrowful, and so sympathetic that I could not but be touched.
15 With some difficulty I got a fellow-passenger to tell me what they meant; he would not answer at first, but on learning that I was English, he explained that it was a charm or guard against the evil eye.
16 There were many things new to me: for instance, hay-ricks in the trees, and here and there very beautiful masses of weeping birch, their white stems shining like silver through the delicate green of the leaves.
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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