Chapter 5 to 10

• I want to keep up with Johnathan's studies.....I have been practicing shorthand very assiduously... I shall be able to be useful to Johnathan
• Three proposals in one day!
• Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble? But this is heresy, and I must not say it
• (Renfield) morbidly excitable, periods of gloom...a possibly dangerous man, probably dangerous if unselfish.
• The sheep and lambs are bleating in the fields away behind me, and there is a clatter of donkey's hoofs up the paved road below. (description of home, safe, the familiar)
• I gave Renfield a strong opiate tonight (bad Victorian psychology and treatment of mental asylum patients)
• My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind.....a zoophagous (life-eating) maniac; what he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can
• (Lucy) has taken to her old habit of walking in her sleep
• Lucy is to be married in the autumn, and she is already planning out her dresses and how the house is to be arranged
• There's something in that wind and in the hoast beyont that sounds, and looks, and tastes, and smells like death. It's in the air, I feel it comin'
• I was glad when the coastguard came along, with his spy-glass under his arm. He stopped to talk to me, as he always does, but all the time kept looking at a strange ship.
• the stillness of the air grew quite oppressive...without warning the tempest broke.
• The waves rose in growing fury, each overtopping its fellow, till in a very few minutes the lately glassy sea was like a roaring and devouring monster.
• The wind roared like thunder...masses of sea-fog came drifting inland- white, wet clouds, which swept by in a ghostly fashion
• for lashed to the helm was a corpse, with drooping head....unsteered save by the hand of a dead man!
• But, strangest of all, the very instant the shore was touched, an immense dog sprang up on deck from below, as if shot up by the concussion, and running forward, jumped from the bow on to the sand.
• The man was simply fastened by his hands, tied one over the other, to a spoke of the wheel. Between the inner hand and the wood was a crucifix
• the dog which landed when the ship struck...evidently a fierce brute
• a large dog....found dead....had a savage opponent, for it's throat was torn away, and it's belly was slit open as if with a savage claw.
• (captain's log) Crew dissatisfied...seemed scared....anxious..one of the crew....missing....downcast...there was something aboard....very impatient....feared some trouble ahead.
• he thought there was a strange man on the hip....tall, thin man, who was not like any of the crew
• a panic of superstitious fear
• another man lost-disappeared...thorough search, but no one found.... One more gone. Lord help us!
• It is here, I know it, now. On the watch last night I saw It, like a man, tall and thin, and ghastly pale
• Save me! save me!...His horror turned to despair...he sprang on the bulwark and deliberately threw himself into the sea
• I shall save my soul, and my honour as captain
• Poor Lucy seemed much upset. She was restless and uneasy all the time
• Mr Swales found dead this morning on our seat, his neck being broken....a look of fear and horror on his face...Perhaps he had seen Death with his dying eyes!
• But I suppose the New Woman won't condescend in future to accept; she will do the proposing herself.
• half-reclining white figure..white face and red, gleaming eyes.
• Her lips were parted, and she was breathing- not softly, as usual with her, but in long, heavy gasps, as though striving to get her lungs full at every breath.
• gradually she became more and more uneasy in her sleep, moaning and sighing occasionally.
• I was filled with anxiety for Lucy, not only for her health...but for her reputation in case the story should get wind.
• such a story may become distorted- nay, infallibly would- in case it should leak out I thought it wiser to do so
• Indeed, it might have been serious, for the skin on her throat was pierced...two little red points like pin-pricks, and on the band of her nightdress was a drop of blood.
• I was awakened by Lucy trying to get out...Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great, whirling circles.
• She was fast asleep, and by her, seated on the window-sill, was something that looked like a good-sized bird.
• She looks so sweet as she sleeps; but she is paler than is her wont, and there is a drawn, haggard look under her eyes which I do not like.
• I heard a lot of dogs howling- the whole town seemed as if it must be full of dogs all howling at once
• something very sweet and very bitter all around me at once...I seemed sinking into deep green water...my soul seemed to go out from my body and float around the air...It seemed a little uncanny to me