We all five went into the room, but none of the others at first said anything.

His request was that I would at once release him from the asylum and send him home.

This he backed up with arguments regarding his complete recovery, and adduced his own existing sanity.
"I appeal to your friends," he said, "they will, perhaps, not mind sitting in judgement on my case.

By the way, you have not introduced me." I was so much astonished, that the oddness of introducing a madman in an asylum did not strike me at the moment, and besides, there was a certain dignity in the man's manner, so much of the habit of equality, that I at once made the introduction, "Lord Godalming, Professor Van Helsing, Mr.Quincey Morris, of Texas, Mr.Jonathan Harker, Mr.
Renfield." He shook hands with each of them, saying in turn, "Lord Godalming, I had the honour of seconding your father at the Windham; I grieve to know, by your holding the title, that he is no more.

He was a man loved and honoured by all who knew him, and in his youth was, I have heard, the inventor of a burnt rum punch, much patronized on Derby night.