The blood is the life!

But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.

We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.