|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: wore out. Mind, I don't say that they never was, but I do say
that they wasn't in my time. They be all very well for comers
and trippers, an' the like, but not for a nice young lady like you.
Them feet-folks from York and Leeds that be always eatin'cured herrin's
and drinkin' tea an' lookin' out to buy cheap jet would creed aught.
I wonder masel' who'd be bothered tellin' lies to them,
even the newspapers, which is full of fool-talk."
I thought he would be a good person to learn interesting
things from, so I asked him if he would mind telling
me something about the whale fishing in the old days.
He was just settling himself to begin when the clock struck six,
Dracula |
