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1JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL--continued 5 May.--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must
2have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as
3several dark ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than it really is. I have not yet been
4able to see it by daylight. When the calèche stopped, the driver jumped down and held out his hand to assist me to
5alight. Again I could not but notice his prodigious strength. His hand actually seemed like a steel vice that could have
6crushed mine if he had chosen. Then he took out my traps, and placed them on the ground beside me as I stood close to a
7great door, old and studded with large iron nails, and set in a projecting doorway of massive stone. I could see even in
8the dim light that the stone was massively carved, but that the carving had been much worn by time and weather. As I
9stood, the driver jumped again into his seat and shook the reins; the horses started forward, and trap and all
10disappeared down one of the dark openings. I stood in silence where I was, for I did not know what to do. Of bell or
11knocker there was no sign; through these frowning walls and dark window openings it was not likely that my voice could
12penetrate. The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fears crowding upon me. What sort of place had I come
13to, and among what kind of people? What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked? Was this a customary
14incident in the life of a solicitor's clerk sent out to explain the purchase of a London estate to a foreigner?
15Solicitor's clerk! Mina would not like that. Solicitor--for just before leaving London I got word that my examination
16was successful; and I am now a full-blown solicitor! I began to rub my eyes and pinch myself to see if I were awake. It
17all seemed like a horrible nightmare to me, and I expected that I should suddenly awake, and find myself at home, with
18the dawn struggling in through the windows, as I had now and again felt in the morning after a day of overwork. But my
19flesh answered the pinching test, and my eyes were not to be deceived. I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians. All
20I could do now was to be patient, and to wait the coming of the morning. Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a
21heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light. Then there was the
22sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the loud grating noise of
23long disuse, and the great door swung back. Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache,
24and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He held in his hand an antique
25silver lamp, in which the flame burned without chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it
26flickered in the draught of the open door. The old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly gesture, saying
27in excellent English, but with a strange intonation:-- "Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!" He made
28no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone.
29The instant, however, that I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand
30grasped mine with a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed as cold as
31ice--more like the hand of a dead than a living man. Again he said:-- "Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and
32leave something of the happiness you bring!" The strength of the handshake was so much akin to that which I had noticed
33in the driver, whose face I had not seen, that for a moment I doubted if it were not the same person to whom I was
34speaking; so to make sure, I said interrogatively:-- "Count Dracula?" He bowed in a courtly way as he replied:-- "I am
35Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house. Come in; the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and
36rest." As he was speaking, he put the lamp on a bracket on the wall, and stepping out, took my luggage; he had carried
37it in before I could forestall him. I protested but he insisted:-- "Nay, sir, you are my guest. It is late, and my
38people are not available. Let me see to your comfort myself." He insisted on carrying my traps along the passage, and
39then up a great winding stair, and along another great passage, on whose stone floor our steps rang heavily. At the end
40of this he threw open a heavy door, and I rejoiced to see within a well-lit room in which a table was spread for supper,
41and on whose mighty hearth a great fire of logs, freshly replenished, flamed and flared. The Count halted, putting down
42my bags, closed the door, and crossing the room, opened another door, which led into a small octagonal room lit by a
43single lamp, and seemingly without a window of any sort. Passing through this, he opened another door, and motioned me
44to enter. It was a welcome sight; for here was a great bedroom well lighted and warmed with another log fire,--also
45added to but lately, for the top logs were fresh--which sent a hollow roar up the wide chimney. The Count himself left
46my luggage inside and withdrew, saying, before he closed the door:-- "You will need, after your journey, to refresh
47yourself by making your toilet. I trust you will find all you wish. When you are ready, come into the other room, where
48you will find your supper prepared." The light and warmth and the Count's courteous welcome seemed to have dissipated
49all my doubts and fears. Having then reached my normal state, I discovered that I was half famished with hunger; so
50making a hasty toilet, I went into the other room. I found supper already laid out. My host, who stood on one side of
51the great fireplace, leaning against the stonework, made a graceful wave of his hand to the table, and said:-- "I pray
52you, be seated and sup how you please. You will, I trust, excuse me that I do not join you; but I have dined already,
53and I do not sup." I handed to him the sealed letter which Mr. Hawkins had entrusted to me. He opened it and read it
54gravely; then, with a charming smile, he handed it to me to read. One passage of it, at least, gave me a thrill of
55pleasure. "I must regret that an attack of gout, from which malady I am a constant sufferer, forbids absolutely any
56travelling on my part for some time to come; but I am happy to say I can send a sufficient substitute, one in whom I
57have every possible confidence. He is a young man, full of energy and talent in his own way, and of a very faithful
58disposition. He is discreet and silent, and has grown into manhood in my service. He shall be ready to attend on you
59when you will during his stay, and shall take your instructions in all matters." The Count himself came forward and took
60off the cover of a dish, and I fell to at once on an excellent roast chicken. This, with some cheese and a salad and a
61bottle of old Tokay, of which I had two glasses, was my supper. During the time I was eating it the Count asked me many
62questions as to my journey, and I told him by degrees all I had experienced. By this time I had finished my supper, and
63by my host's desire had drawn up a chair by the fire and begun to smoke a cigar which he offered me, at the same time
64excusing himself that he did not smoke. I had now an opportunity of observing him, and found him of a very marked
65physiognomy.
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