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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: and put his head inside the door and said with a warning finger held up,
"Remember, she is your charge. If you leave her, and harm befall,
you shall not sleep easy hereafter!"
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY--CONTINUED
8 September.--I sat up all night with Lucy. The opiate worked
itself off towards dusk, and she waked naturally. She looked
a different being from what she had been before the operation.
Her spirits even were good, and she was full of a happy vivacity, but I
could see evidences of the absolute prostration which she had undergone.
When I told Mrs. Westenra that Dr. Van Helsing had directed
that I should sit up with her, she almost pooh-poohed the idea,
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