“Here, there is one thing which is different from all recorded; here is some dual life that is not as the common. She was bitten by the vampire when she was in a trance, sleepwalking⁠—oh, you start; you do not know that, friend John, but you shall know it all later⁠—and in trance could he best come to take more blood. In trance she died, and in trance she is Un-Dead, too. So it is that she differ from all other. Usually when the Un-Dead sleep at home”⁠—as he spoke he made a comprehensive sweep of his arm to designate what to a vampire was “home”⁠—“their face show what they are, but this so sweet that was when she not Un-Dead she go back to the nothings of the common dead.

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