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Stoker, Bram

"Draculas Guest"

But this was only momentarily; for suddenly the moonlight broke through the clouds showing me that I was in a graveyard and that the square object before me was a great massive tomb of marble, as white as the snow that lay on and all around it. With the moonlight there came a fierce sigh of the storm which appeared to resume its course with a long, low howl, as of many dogs or wolves.I was awed and shocked, and I felt the cold perceptibly grow upon me till it seemed to grip me by the heart. Then while the flood of moonlight still fell on the marble tomb, the storm gave further evidence of renewing, as though it were return- ing on its track. Impelled by some sort of fascination, I app- roached the sepulchre to see what it was and why such a thing stood alone in such a place.I walked around it and read, over the Doric door, in German--



Countess Dolingen Of Gratz

In Styria

Sought And Found Death

1801


? ? ? ? On the top of the tomb, seemingly driven through the solid marble--for the structure was composed of a few vast blocks of stone--was a great iron spike or stake. On going to the back I saw, graven in great Russian letters: "The dead travel fast.


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