[Dracula by Bram Stoker]@TWC D-Link bookDracula CHAPTER 17 34/46
But the old chapel, that took the cike, that did! Me and my mate, we thort we wouldn't never git out quick enough.
Lor', I wouldn't take less nor a quid a moment to stay there arter dark." Having been in the house, I could well believe him, but if he knew what I know, he would, I think have raised his terms. Of one thing I am now satisfied.
That all those boxes which arrived at Whitby from Varna in the Demeter were safely deposited in the old chapel at Carfax.
There should be fifty of them there, unless any have since been removed, as from Dr.Seward's diary I fear. Later .-- Mina and I have worked all day, and we have put all the papers into order. MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL. 30 September .-- I am so glad that I hardly know how to contain myself. It is, I suppose, the reaction from the haunting fear which I have had, that this terrible affair and the reopening of his old wound might act detrimentally on Jonathan.
I saw him leave for Whitby with as brave a face as could, but I was sick with apprehension.
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