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1When I had written in my diary and had fortunately replaced the book and pen in my pocket I felt sleepy. The Count's
2warning came into my mind, but I took a pleasure in disobeying it. The sense of sleep was upon me, and with it the
3obstinacy which sleep brings as outrider. The soft moonlight soothed, and the wide expanse without gave a sense of
4freedom which refreshed me. I determined not to return to-night to the gloom-haunted rooms, but to sleep here, where, of
5old, ladies had sat and sung and lived sweet lives whilst their gentle breasts were sad for their menfolk away in the
6midst of remorseless wars. I drew a great couch out of its place near the corner, so that as I lay, I could look at the
7lovely view to east and south, and unthinking of and uncaring for the dust, composed myself for sleep. I suppose I must
8have fallen asleep; I hope so, but I fear, for all that followed was startlingly real--so real that now sitting here in
9the broad, full sunlight of the morning, I cannot in the least believe that it was all sleep. I was not alone. The room
10was the same, unchanged in any way since I came into it; I could see along the floor, in the brilliant moonlight, my own
11footsteps marked where I had disturbed the long accumulation of dust. In the moonlight opposite me were three young
12women, ladies by their dress and manner. I thought at the time that I must be dreaming when I saw them, for, though the
13moonlight was behind them, they threw no shadow on the floor. They came close to me, and looked at me for some time, and
14then whispered together. Two were dark, and had high aquiline noses, like the Count, and great dark, piercing eyes that
15seemed to be almost red when contrasted with the pale yellow moon. The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great
16wavy masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires. I seemed somehow to know her face, and to know it in connection
17with some dreamy fear, but I could not recollect at the moment how or where. All three had brilliant white teeth that
18shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips. There was something about them that made me uneasy, some
19longing and at the same time some deadly fear. I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with
20those red lips. It is not good to note this down, lest some day it should meet Mina's eyes and cause her pain; but it is
21the truth. They whispered together, and then they all three laughed--such a silvery, musical laugh, but as hard as
22though the sound never could have come through the softness of human lips. It was like the intolerable, tingling
23sweetness of water-glasses when played on by a cunning hand. The fair girl shook her head coquettishly, and the other
24two urged her on. One said:-- "Go on! You are first, and we shall follow; yours is the right to begin." The other
25added:-- "He is young and strong; there are kisses for us all." I lay quiet, looking out under my eyelashes in an agony
26of delightful anticipation. The fair girl advanced and bent over me till I could feel the movement of her breath upon
27me. Sweet it was in one sense, honey-sweet, and sent the same tingling through the nerves as her voice, but with a
28bitter underlying the sweet, a bitter offensiveness, as one smells in blood. I was afraid to raise my eyelids, but
29looked out and saw perfectly under the lashes. The girl went on her knees, and bent over me, simply gloating. There was
30a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her
31lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as
32it lapped the white sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head as the lips went below the range of my mouth and chin and
33seemed about to fasten on my throat. Then she paused, and I could hear the churning sound of her tongue as it licked her
34teeth and lips, and could feel the hot breath on my neck. Then the skin of my throat began to tingle as one's flesh does
35when the hand that is to tickle it approaches nearer--nearer. I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the
36super-sensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there. I closed my
37eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited--waited with beating heart. But at that instant, another sensation swept through
38me as quick as lightning. I was conscious of the presence of the Count, and of his being as if lapped in a storm of
39fury. As my eyes opened involuntarily I saw his strong hand grasp the slender neck of the fair woman and with giant's
40power draw it back, the blue eyes transformed with fury, the white teeth champing with rage, and the fair cheeks blazing
41red with passion. But the Count! Never did I imagine such wrath and fury, even to the demons of the pit. His eyes were
42positively blazing. The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell-fire blazed behind them. His face was
43deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires; the thick eyebrows that met over the nose now seemed like
44a heaving bar of white-hot metal. With a fierce sweep of his arm, he hurled the woman from him, and then motioned to the
45others, as though he were beating them back; it was the same imperious gesture that I had seen used to the wolves. In a
46voice which, though low and almost in a whisper seemed to cut through the air and then ring round the room he said:--
47"How dare you touch him, any of you? How dare you cast eyes on him when I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This
48man belongs to me! Beware how you meddle with him, or you'll have to deal with me." The fair girl, with a laugh of
49ribald coquetry, turned to answer him:-- "You yourself never loved; you never love!" On this the other women joined, and
50such a mirthless, hard, soulless laughter rang through the room that it almost made me faint to hear; it seemed like the
51pleasure of fiends. Then the Count turned, after looking at my face attentively, and said in a soft whisper:-- "Yes, I
52too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so? Well, now I promise you that when I am done with
53him you shall kiss him at your will. Now go! go! I must awaken him, for there is work to be done." "Are we to have
54nothing to-night?" said one of them, with a low laugh, as she pointed to the bag which he had thrown upon the floor, and
55which moved as though there were some living thing within it. For answer he nodded his head. One of the women jumped
56forward and opened it. If my ears did not deceive me there was a gasp and a low wail, as of a half-smothered child. The
57women closed round, whilst I was aghast with horror; but as I looked they disappeared, and with them the dreadful bag.
58There was no door near them, and they could not have passed me without my noticing. They simply seemed to fade into the
59rays of the moonlight and pass out through the window, for I could see outside the dim, shadowy forms for a moment
60before they entirely faded away. Then the horror overcame me, and I sank down unconscious.
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