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trembling until I can coax him back to his usual placidity.
However, thank God, these occasions grow less frequent
as the days go on, and they will in time pass away
altogether, I trust. And now I have told you my news, let

me ask yours. When are you to be married, and where,
and who is to perform the ceremony, and what are you to
wear, and is it to be a public or private wedding? Tell me
all about it, dear, tell me all about everything, for there is
nothing which interests you which will not be dear to me.
Jonathan asks me to send his ‘respectful duty’, but I do not
think that is good enough from the junior partner of the
important firm Hawkins & Harker. And so, as you love
me, and he loves me, and I love you with all the moods
and tenses of the verb, I send you simply his ‘love’ instead.
Goodbye, my dearest Lucy, and blessings on you.’ Yours,
Mina Harker
REPORT FROM PATRICK HENNESSEY, MD,
MRCSLK, QCPI, ETC, ETC, TO JOHN SEWARD,
MD
20 September
My dear Sir:
‘In accordance with your wishes, I enclose report of the
conditions of everything left in my charge. With regard to
patient, Renfield, there is more to say. He has had another

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