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Dracula's guest5/19/2023 ![]() He crossed himself, as he answered laconically: "Walpurgis nacht." Then he took out his watch, a great, old-fashioned German silver thing as big as a turnip and looked at it, with his eyebrows gathered together and a little impatient shrug of his shoulders. When we had cleared the town, I said, after signalling to him to stop: ![]() Johann answered with an emphatic, "Ja, mein Herr," and, touching his hat, drove off quickly. But I am sure you will not be late." Here he smiled and added,"for you know what night it is." The sky looks bright but there is a shiver in the north wind that says there may be a sudden storm. Just as we were about to depart, Herr Delbruck (the maitre d'hotel of the Quatre Saisons, where I was staying) came down bareheaded to the carriage and, after wishing me a pleasant drive, said to the coachman, still holding his hand on the handle of the carriage door, "Remember you are back by nightfall. When we started for our drive the sun was shining brightly on Munich, and the air was full of the joyousness of early summer. ![]()
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