Chapter 1 to 4

• leaving the West and entering the East
• 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
• every known superstition in the world....imaginative whirlpool
• They are very picturesque....Oriental band of brigands
• he and his wife crossed themselves
• taking a crucifix from her neck offered it to me...as an English Churchman, I have been taught to regard such things as in some measure idolatrous
• starting for an unknown place to meet an unknown man
• jagged rock and pointed crags... snow-covered peak of a mountain
• They were driven by a tall man, with a long brown beard and a great black hat, which seemed to hide his face from us. I could only see the gleam of a pair of very bright eyes, which seemed red in the lamplight
• As he spoke he smiled, and the lamplight fell on a hard-looking mouth, with very red lips and sharp-looking teeth, as white as ivory
• Suddenly I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky.
• Of bell or knocker there was no sign; through these frowning walls and dark window openings it was not likely that my voice could penetrate.
• His face was a strong- a very strong- aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples, but profusely elsewhere.
• The mouth...rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
• his ears were pale...the tops extremely pointed...extraordinary pallor.
• Strange to say, there were hairs in the centre of his palm. The nails were long and fine, and cut sharp to a point.
• his breath was rank....a horrible feeling of nausea came over me
• protuberant teeth
• extraordinary evidences of wealth which are around me...fabulous value...I saw something like them in Hampton Court
• I have not yet seen a servant anywhere
• In the library I found, to my great delight, a vast number of English books
• A table in the centre was littered with English magazines and newspapers, though none were of very recent date
• I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share it's life, it's change, it's death, and all that makes it what it is.
• the common people know me, and I am Master
• But there was no reflection of him in the mirror!
• the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat....his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix
• I explored further; doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted.
• The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!
• We Szekelys have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood of many brave races who fought as the lion fights, for lordship.
• What devil or what witch was ever so great as Attila, whose blood is in these veins?....we were a conquering race
• let me warn you with all seriousness, that should you leave these rooms you will not by any chance go to sleep in any other parts of the castle
• Should sleep now or ever overcome you, or be like to do, then haste to your own chamber or to these rooms, for your rest will then be safe.
• (I saw the Count) move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall.
• The Count's warning came into my mind, but I took a pleasure in disobeying it.
• Two were dark, and had high aquiline noses, like the Count, and great dark piercing eyes....the other was fair...eyes like pale sapphires
• white teeth... pearls... ruby... voluptuous lips
• some longing at the same time some deadly fear.... I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips.
• I lay quiet, looking out under my eyelashes in delightful anticipation
• The fair girl went on her knees, and bent over me, fairly gloating...there was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive
• I closed my eyes in languorous ecstasy and waited