1 I found supper already laid out.
2 I wish I were safe out of it, or that I had never come.
3 I went out on the stairs, and found a room looking towards the South.
4 The Count again excused himself, as he had dined out on his being away from home.
5 He mumbled out that the money had been sent in a letter, and that was all he knew.
6 I was now myself looking out for the conveyance which was to take me to the Count.
7 In the meantime I must find out all I can about Count Dracula, as it may help me to understand.
8 The passenger turned his face away, at the same time putting out his two fingers and crossing himself.
9 This state of excitement kept on for some little time; and at last we saw before us the Pass opening out on the eastern side.
10 This was emphasised by the fact that the snowy mountain-top still held the sunset, and seemed to glow out with a delicate cool pink.
11 I called to the coachman to come, for it seemed to me that our only chance was to try to break out through the ring and to aid his approach.
12 When I had dressed myself I went into the room where we had supped, and found a cold breakfast laid out, with coffee kept hot by the pot being placed on the hearth.
13 I could hear a lot of words often repeated, queer words, for there were many nationalities in the crowd; so I quietly got my polyglot dictionary from my bag and looked them out.
14 I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering out of every window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my helplessness overpowered all other feelings.
15 Then he took out my traps, and placed them on the ground beside me as I stood close to a great door, old and studded with large iron nails, and set in a projecting doorway of massive stone.
16 As the evening fell it began to get very cold, and the growing twilight seemed to merge into one dark mistiness the gloom of the trees, oak, beech, and pine, though in the valleys which ran deep between the spurs of the hills, as we ascended through the Pass, the dark firs stood out here and there against the background of late-lying snow.
17 Right and left of us they towered, with the afternoon sun falling full upon them and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautiful range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and pointed crags, till these were themselves lost in the distance, where the snowy peaks rose grandly.
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