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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: thing of me to do, and I ask your pardon, Mrs. Harker,
most sincerely, I fear I must have frightened you terribly.
But the fact is that whilst the Professor was talking
there came a big bat and sat on the window sill.
I have got such a horror of the damned brutes from recent events
that I cannot stand them, and I went out to have a shot, as I
have been doing of late of evenings, whenever I have seen one.
You used to laugh at me for it then, Art."
"Did you hit it?" asked Dr. Van Helsing.
"I don't know, I fancy not, for it flew away into the wood."
Without saying any more he took his seat, and the Professor
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