screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam. I should have fled in terror and left my work undone. But it is over! And the poor souls, I can pity them now and weep, as I think of them placid each in her full sleep of death for a short moment ere fading. For, friend John, hardly had my knife severed the head of each, before the whole body began to melt away and crumble in to its native dust, as though the death that should have come centuries agone had at last assert himself and say at once and loud “I am here!” Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Un-Dead. When I stepped into the circle where Madam Mina slept, she woke from her sleep, and, seeing, me, cried out in pain that I had endured too much. “Come!” she said, “come away from this awful place! Let us go to meet my husband who is, I know, coming towards us.” She was looking thin and pale and weak; but her eyes were pure and glowed with fervour. I was glad to see her paleness and her illness, for my mind was full of the fresh horror of that ruddy vampire sleep. And so with trust and hope, and yet full of fear, we go eastward to meet our friends—and him —whom Madam Mina tell me that she know are coming to meet
Diario de Mina Harker. 6 de noviembre. —Era avanzada la tarde cuando el Profesor y yo nos pusimos en camino hacia el este, de donde sabía que venía Jonathan. No íbamos deprisa, aunque el camino descendía abruptamente, pues teníamos que llevar con nosotros mantas y abrigos pesados; no nos atrevíamos a afrontar la posibilidad de quedarnos sin calor en el frío y la nieve. También tuvimos que llevar algunas provisiones, ya que estábamos en una absoluta desolación y, hasta