Dracula Audio Book - 1st Person Narration, Intense, Engaging
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Dracula by Bram Stoker. Chapter one Jonathan Harker is journal. Kept in shorting 3 May, Mister. It's left Munich at 8:35 p.m. On 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning. Should have arrived at 6 46 but train was an hour late. Budapest seems a wonderful place from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I fear to go very far from the station as we arrived late, and what start is near the correct time is possible. The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the east, the most western of splendid bridges over Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule. We left in pretty good time and came after nightfall to close Enberg here. I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royal I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty. Memo get recipe for Meena. I asked the waiter, and he said it was called paprika Handle, and that as it was a national dish. I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians. I found my smattering of German very useful here indeed. I don't know how I should be able to get along without it. Having had some time at my disposal one in London, I had visited the British Museum and made search among the books and maps in the library regarding Transylvania. It had struck me that some for knowledge of the country could hardly fail to have some importance in dealing with the nobleman of that country. I find that the districting named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states Transylvania, Moldavia and Boo Covina in the midst of the Carpathian Mountains, one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe. I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own ordinance survey maps. But I found the best. It's the post down named by Count Dracula is a fairly well known place. I shall enter here some of my notes as they may refresh my memory When I talk over my travels with Meena just before I was leaving, the old lady came up to my room and said in a very hysterical way. Must you go? Oh young heir, Must you go? She was in such an excited state that she seemed to have lost her grip of what German she knew, mixed it all up with some other language, which I did not know at all. I was just able to follow her by asking many questions when I told her that I must go at once and that I was engaged on important business, she asked again, Do you know what day it is? I answered that it was the fourth of May. She shook her head as she said again. Oh, yes, I know that I know that. But do you know what day it is? A. My saying that I did not understand, she went on this the eve of ST George's Day. Do you know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight or that evil things in the world will have full sway, do you know where you are going in what you are going to. She was in such evident distress that I tried to comfort her, but without effect. Finally, she went down on her knees and implored me not to go at least to wait a day or two before starting was all very ridiculous, but I did not feel comfortable.