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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: anyone could lay hands on her. And I suppose he might have broken
his neck by falling out of bed, if he got in an awkward kink.
But for the life of me I can't imagine how the two things occurred.
If his back was broke, he couldn't beat his head, and if his face was
like that before the fall out of bed, there would be marks of it."
I said to him, "Go to Dr. Van Helsing, and ask him to kindly come
here at once. I want him without an instant's delay."
The man ran off, and within a few minutes the Professor, in his
dressing gown and slippers, appeared. When he saw Renfield on
the ground, he looked keenly at him a moment, and then turned to me.
I think he recognized my thought in my eyes, for he said very quietly,
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