But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
BRAM STOKERI saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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Take me away from all this Death.
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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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