1 This is an exact record of what took place to-night.
2 Here was a rare interview; I shall try to record it verbatim.
3 I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises.
4 He has closed the account most accurately, and to-day begun a new record.
5 These things are we told, and in this record of ours we have proof by inference.
6 And so now, up to this very hour, all the records we have are complete and in order.
7 We know from the record that he was on the water; so what we have to do is to ascertain what water.
8 To me it seems only yesterday that my whole life ended with my new hope, and that truly I began a new record.
9 ONE greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been experienced here, with results both strange and unique.
10 Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
11 I have asked my friend Arminius, of Buda-Pesth University, to make his record; and, from all the means that are, he tell me of what he has been.
12 Van Helsing sits in my study poring over the record prepared by the Harkers; he seems to think that by accurate knowledge of all details he will light upon some clue.
13 I think that the cylinders which you gave me contained more than you intended me to know; but I can see that there are in your record many lights to this dark mystery.
14 I told her that she was to have all the papers in the safe, and all the papers or diaries and phonographs we might hereafter use; and was to keep the record as she had done before.
15 Take it and keep it, read it if you will, but never let me know; unless, indeed, some solemn duty should come upon me to go back to the bitter hours, asleep or awake, sane or mad, recorded here.