A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back. Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back. I heard a heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light.And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured. Seven years ago we all went through the flames. My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. You shall be sorry yet, each one of you! You think you have left me without a place to rest, but I have more. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplated by men's eyes, because they know, or think they know, some things which other men have told them. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.

The Jewel of Seven Stars, Chapter XIX: The Great Experiment (1903)ĭracula (1897) We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England.She dreamed her dream and that is all that any of us can ask. Do not grieve for her! Who knows, but she may have found the joy she sought? Love and patience are all that make for happiness in this world or in the world of the past or of the future of the living or the dead.1.2 Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907).

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