1 Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale.
2 But he sat as on the previous night, and chatted whilst I ate.
3 Come in; the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest.
4 On the watch last night I saw It, like a man, tall and thin, and ghastly pale.
5 Last night was very threatening, and the fishermen say that we are in for a storm.
6 Lucy walks more than ever, and each night I am awakened by her moving about the room.
7 The coming night might see my own body a banquet in a similar way to those horrid three.
8 Took larboard watch eight bells last night; was relieved by Abramoff, but did not go to bunk.
9 Her mother has spoken to me about it, and we have decided that I am to lock the door of our room every night.
10 I think had there been any alternative I should have taken it, instead of prosecuting that unknown night journey.
11 Looking out on this, I felt that I was indeed in prison, and I seemed to want a breath of fresh air, though it were of the night.
12 It was found necessary to clear the entire piers from the mass of onlookers, or else the fatalities of the night would have been increased manifold.
13 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.
14 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.
15 Then as time went on, and I had got somewhat bolder, I asked him of some of the strange things of the preceding night, as, for instance, why the coachman went to the places where he had seen the blue flames.
16 The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
17 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.
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