Chapter 23 to end

Cards (26)

  • that big child-brain of his is working
  • he has been creeping into knowledge experimentally....important experiments
  • panther-like...so unhuman....sort of snarl.....lion-like disdain
  • 'like a sheep in a butcher's'
  • 'my revenge is just begun....your girls that you all love are mine already; and through them yo and other shall yet be mine - my creatures, to do my bidding and be my jackals when I want to feed'
  • 'The lapping of water...gurgling...little waves leap'
  • 'He saw that with but one earth-box left, and a pack of men following like dogs after a fox, this London was no place for him'
  • 'we have to follow him to the jaws of Hell'
  • 'he can live for centuries and you are but a mortal woman'
  • 'With the sad experience of Miss Lucy, we must this time be warned before things go too far....her teeth are some sharper, and at times her eyes are more hard'
  • 'promise me that you will not tell me anything of the plans formed for the campaign against the Count. Not by word, or inference, or implication; not at any time whilst this remains to me...she solemnly pointed to the scar'
  • 'I know that all that brave earnest men can do for a poor weak woman, whose soul is perhaps lost'
  • 'There is a poison in my blood, in my soul, which may destroy me'
  • 'I am a train fiend....I used to make up the time-tables, so as to be helpful to my husband.'
  • 'At present he want her not'
  • 'The Count is a criminal and of criminal type. Nordau and Lombroso would so classify him'
  • 'he came to London to invade a new land'
  • 'we shall follow in the track where Johnathan went - from Bistritz over the Borgo...so that that nest of vipers be obliterated'
  • 'Mina, in her sad case and tainted as she is with that devil's illness, right into the jaws of this death-trap?
  • 'bright hard eyes, the white teeth, the ruddy colour, the voluptuous lips......intolerable sweetness of the water-glasses: Come, sister....the repulsion, the horror, told a story to my heart that was all of hope'
  • 'She was so fair to look on, so radiantly beautiful, so exquisitely voluptuous, the very instinct of the man in me, which calls some of my sex to love and protect one of hers, made my head whirl with some new emotion'
  • 'I could not have endured the horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form, and the lips of bloody foam'
  • 'the whole body began to melt away and crumble into it's native dust, as though the death that should have come centuries agone had at kast asserted himself'
  • 'the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in them turned to triumph....the whole body crumpled into dust....there was in the face a look of peace'
  • 'God be thanked that not all was in vain...the snow is no more stainless than her forehead! The curse has passed away!'
  • The castle stood as before, reared high above a waste of desolation