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We exchanged these lists, and I

then requested him to place against each name (as far as he knew)

the annual income of the different appointments held by that

person In the mean time, I performed the same operation on his

list, against some names of which I was obliged to place a ZERO

The result of the comparison was an average of nearly 1200Lper

annum for the six French SAVANS whom I had named Of the average

amount of the sums received by the English, I only remember that

it was very much smaller When we consider what a command over

the necessaries and luxuries of life 1200Lwill give in France,

it is underrating it to say it is equal to 2000L

Let us now look at the prospects of a young man at his entrance

into life, who, impelled by an almost irresistible desire to

devote himself to the abstruser sciences, or who, confident in

the energy of youthful power, feels that the career of science is

that in which his mental faculties are most fitted to achieve the

reputation for which he pants What are his prospects? Can even

the glowing pencil of enthusiasm add colour to the blank before

him? There are no situations in the state; there is no position

in society to which hope can point, to cheer him in his laborious

path If, indeed, he belong to one of our universities, there

are some few chairs in his OWN Alma Mater to which he may at some

distant day pretend; but these are not numerous; and whilst the

salaries attached are seldom sufficient for the sole support of

the individual, they are very rarely enough for that of a family

What then can he reply to the entreaties of his friends, to

betake himself to some business in which perhaps they have power

to assist him, or to choose some profession in which his talents

may produce for him their fair reward? If he have no fortune, the

choice is taken away: he MUST give up that line of life in which

his habits of thought and his ambition qualify him to succeed

eminently, and he MUST choose the bar, or some other profession,

in which, amongst so many competitors, in spite of his great

talents, he can be but moderately successful The loss to him is

great, but to the country it is greater We thus, by a

destructive misapplication of talent which our institutions

create, exchange a profound philosopher for but a tolerable

lawyer

If, on the other hand, he possess some moderate fortune of his

own; and, intent on the glory of an immortal name, yet not

blindly ignorant of the state of science in this country, he

resolve to make for that aspiration a sacrifice the greater,

because he is fully aware of its extent;–if, so circumstanced,

he give up a business or a profession on which he might have

entered with advantage, with the hope that, when he shall have

won a station high in the ranks of European science, he may a

little augment his resources by some of those few employments to

which science leads;–if he hope to obtain some situation, (at

the Board of Longitude, for example,) [This body is now

dissolved] where he may be permitted to exercise the talents of

a philosopher for the paltry remuneration of a clerk, he will

find that other qualifications than knowledge and a love of

science are necessary for its attainment He will also find that

the high and independent spirit, which usually dwells in the

breast of those who are deeply versed in these pursuits, is ill

adapted for such appointments; and that even if successful, he

must hear many things he disapproves, and raise no voice AGAINST

them

Thus, then, it appears that scarcely any man can be expected to

pursue abstract science unless he possess a private fortune, and

unless he can resolve to give up all intention of improving it

Yet, how few thus situated are likely to undergo the labour of

the acquisition; and if they do from some irresistible impulse,

what inducement is there for them to deviate one step from those

inquiries in which they find the greatest delight, into those

which might be more immediately useful to the public?

CHAPTER III

GENERAL STATE OF LEARNED SOCIETIES IN ENGLAND

The progress of knowledge convinced the world that the system of

the division of labour and of cooperation was as applicable to

science, as it had been found available for the improvement of

manufactures The want of competition in science produced

effects similar to those which the same cause gives birth to in

the arts The cultivators of botany were the first to feel that

the range of knowledge embraced by the Royal Society was too

comprehensive to admit of sufficient attention to their favourite

subject, and they established the Linnean Society After many

years, a new science arose, and the Geological Society was

produced At an another and more recent epoch, the friends of

astronomy, urged by the wants of their science, united to

establish the Astronomical Society Each of these bodies found,

that the attention devoted to their science by the parent

establishment was insufficient for their wants, and each in

succession experienced from the Royal Society the most determined

opposition

Instituted by the most enlightened philosophers, solely for the

promotion of the natural sciences, that learned body justly

conceived that nothing could be more likely to render these young

institutions permanently successful, than discouragement and

opposition at their commencement Finding their first attempts

so eminently successful, they redoubled the severity of their

persecution, and the result was commensurate with their

exertions, and surpassed even their wildest anticipations The

Astronomical Society became in six years known and respected

throughout Europe, not from the halo of reputation which the

glory of its vigourous youth had thrown around the weakness of

its declining years; but from the sterling merit of “its

unpretending deeds, from the sympathy it claimed and received

from every practical astronomer, whose labours it relieved, and

whose calculations it lightened

But the system which worked so well is now changed, and the

Zoological and Medico-Botanical Societies were established

without opposition: perhaps, indeed, the total failure of the

latter society is the best proof of the wisdom which guided the

councils of the Royal At present, the various societies exist

with no feelings of rivalry or hostility, each pursuing its

separate objects, and all uniting in deploring with filial

regret, the second childhood of their common parent, and the evil

councils by which that sad event has been anticipated

It is the custom to attach certain letters to the names of those

who belong to different societies, and these marks of ownership

are by many considered the only valuable part of their purchase

on entry The following is a list of some of these societies

The second column gives the ready-money prices of the tail-pieces

indicated in the third Fees on Admission Appended

including Composition Letters

for Annual Payments

L 50 0 0 F

Royal Society of Edinburgh 25 4 0* F

Royal Academy of Dublin 26 5 0 M

Royal Society of Literature 36 15 0 shop F

Then I looked around for the Count, but with surprise and gladness, made a discoveryThe room was empty! It was barely furnished with odd things, which seemed to have never been used

The furniture was something the same style as that in the south rooms, and was covered with dustI looked for the key, but it was not in the lock, and I could not find it anywhereThe only thing I found was a great heap of gold in one corner, gold of all kinds, Roman, and British, and Austrian, and Hungarian, and Greek and Turkish money, covered with a film of dust, as though it had lain long in the groundNone of it that I noticed was less than three hundred years oldThere were also chains and ornaments, some jewelled, but all of them old and stained

At one corner of the room was a heavy doorI tried it, for, since I could not find the key of the room or the key of the outer door, which was the main object of my search, I must make further examination, or all my efforts would be in vainIt was open, and led through a stone passage to a circular stairway, which went steeply down

I descended, minding carefully where I went for the stairs were dark, being only lit by loopholes in the heavy masonryAt the bottom there was a dark, tunnel-like passage, through which came a deathly, sickly odour, the odour of old earth newly turnedAs I went through the passage the smell grew closer and heavierAt last I pulled open a heavy door which stood ajar, and found myself in an old ruined chapel, which had evidently been used as a graveyardThe roof was broken, and in two places were steps leading to vaults, but the ground had recently been dug over, and the earth placed in great wooden boxes, manifestly those which had been brought by the Slovaks

There was nobody about, and I made a search over every inch of the ground, so as not to lose a chanceI went down even into the vaults, where the dim light struggled, although to do so was a dread to my very soulInto two of these I went, but saw nothing except fragments of old coffins and piles of dustIn the third, however, I made a discovery

There, in one of the great boxes, of which there were fifty in all, on a pile of newly dug earth, lay the Count! He was either dead or asleepI could not say which, for eyes were open and stony, but without the glassiness of death, and the cheeks had the warmth of life through all their pallorThe lips were as red as everBut there was no sign of movement, no pulse, no breath, no beating of the heart

I bent over him, and tried to find any sign of life, but in vainHe could not have lain there long, for the earthy smell would have passed away in a few hoursBy the side of the box was its cover, pierced with holes here and thereI thought he might have the keys on him, but when I went to search I saw the dead eyes, and in them dead though they were, such a look of hate, though unconscious of me or my presence, that I fled from the place, and leaving the Count’s room by the window, crawled again up the castle wallRegaining my room, I threw myself panting upon the bed and tried to think-Today is the date of my last letter, and the Count has taken steps to prove that it was genuine, for again I saw him leave the castle by the same window, and in my clothesAs he went down the wall, lizard fashion, I wished I had a gun or some lethal weapon, that I might destroy himBut I fear that no weapon wrought along by man’s hand would have any effect on himI dared not wait to see him return, for I feared to see those weird sistersI came back to the library, and read there till I fell asleep

I was awakened by the Count, who looked at me as grimly as a man could look as he said, “Tomorrow, my friend, we must partYou return to your beautiful England, I to some work which may have such an end that we may never meetYour letter home has been despatchedTomorrow I shall not be here, but all shall be ready for your journeyIn the morning come the Szgany, who have some labours of their own here, and also come some SlovaksWhen they have gone, my carriage shall come for you, and shall bear you to the Borgo Pass to meet the diligence from Bukovina to BistritzBut I am in hopes that I shall see more of you at Castle shop Dracula

She had lost something of the ghastly look that so upset you, and her breathing was normalShe was very sweet to the Professor (as she always is), and tried to make him feel at ease, though I could see the poor girl was making a hard struggle for it

“I believe Van Helsing saw it, too, for I saw the quick look under his bushy brows that I knew of oldThen he began to chat of all things except ourselves and diseases and with such an infinite geniality that I could see poor Lucy’s pretense of animation merge into realityThen, without any seeming change, he brought the conversation gently round to his visit, and suavely said,

“‘My dear young miss, I have the so great pleasure because you are so much belovedThat is much, my dear, even were there that which I do not seeThey told me you were down in the spirit, and that you were of a ghastly paleTo them I say “Pouf!”‘ And he snapped his fingers at me and went on’But you and I shall show them how wrong they areHow can he,’ and he pointed at me with the same look and gesture as that with which he pointed me out in his class, on, or rather after, a particular occasion which he never fails to remind me of, ‘know anything of a young ladies? He has his madmen to play with, and to bring them back to happiness, and to those that love themIt is much to do, and, oh, but there are rewards in that we can bestow such happinessBut the young ladies! He has no wife nor daughter, and the young do not tell themselves to the young, but to the old, like me, who have known so many sorrows and the causes of themSo, my dear, we will send him away to smoke the cigarette in the garden, whiles you and I have little talk all to ourselves’ I took the hint, and strolled about, and presently the professor came to the window and called me inHe looked grave, but said, ‘I have made careful examination, but there is no functional causeWith you I agree that there has been much blood lost, it has been but is notBut the conditions of her are in no way anemicI have asked her to send me her maid, that I may ask just one or two questions, that so I may not chance to miss nothingI know well what she will sayAnd yet there is causeThere is always cause for everythingI must go back home and thinkYou must send me the telegram every day, and if there be cause I shall come againThe disease, for not to be well is a disease, interest me, and the sweet, young dear, she interest me tooShe charm me, and for her, if not for you or disease, I come’

“As I tell you, he would not say a word more, even when we were aloneAnd so now, Art, you know all I knowI shall keep stern watchI trust your poor father is rallyingIt must be a terrible thing to you, my dear old fellow, to be placed in such a position between two people who are both so dear to youI know your idea of duty to your father, and you are right to stick to itBut if need be, I shall send you word to come at once to Lucy, so do not be over-anxious unless you hear from meSEWARD’S DIARY

4 September-Zoophagous patient still keeps up our interest in himHe had only one outburst and that was yesterday at an unusual timeJust before the stroke of noon he began to grow restlessThe attendant knew the symptoms, and at once summoned aidFortunately the men came at a run, and were just in time, for at the stroke of noon he became so violent that it took all their strength to hold himIn about five minutes, however, he began to get more quiet, and finally sank into a sort of melancholy, in which state he has remained up to nowThe attendant tells me that his screams whilst in the paroxysm were really shop appalling

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“Van Helsing would, I know, do anything for me for a personal reason, so no matter on what ground he comes, we must accept his wishesHe is a seemingly arbitrary man, this is because he knows what he is talking about better than any one elseHe is a philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day, and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mindThis, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, and indomitable resolution, self-command, and toleration exalted from virtues to blessings, and the kindliest and truest heart that beats, these form his equipment for the noble work that he is doing for mankind, work both in theory and practice, for his views are as wide as his all-embracing sympathyI tell you these facts that you may know why I have such confidence in himI have asked him to come at onceI shall see Miss Westenra tomorrow againShe is to meet me at the Stores, so that I may not alarm her mother by too early a repetition of my call

John Seward

LETTER, ABRAHAM VAN HELSING, MD, DPh, DSEWARD

2 September

“My good Friend,

“When I received your letter I am already coming to youBy good fortune I can leave just at once, without wrong to any of those who have trusted meWere fortune other, then it were bad for those who have trusted, for I come to my friend when he call me to aid those he holds dearTell your friend that when that time you suck from my wound so swiftly the poison of the gangrene from that knife that our other friend, too nervous, let slip, you did more for him when he wants my aids and you call for them than all his great fortune could doBut it is pleasure added to do for him, your friend, it is to you that I comeHave near at hand, and please it so arrange that we may see the young lady not too late on tomorrow, for it is likely that I may have to return here that nightBut if need be I shall come again in three days, and stay longer if it mustTill then goodbye, my friend John

LETTER, DRARTHUR HOLMWOOD

3 September

“My dear Art,

“Van Helsing has come and goneHe came on with me to Hillingham, and found that, by Lucy’s discretion, her mother was lunching out, so that we were alone with her

“Van Helsing made a very careful examination of the patientHe is to report to me, and I shall advise you, for of course I was not present all the timeHe is, I fear, much concerned, but says he must thinkWhen I told him of our friendship and how you trust to me in the matter, he said, ‘You must tell him all you thinkTell him what I think, if you can guess it, if you willNay, I am not jestingThis is no jest, but life and death, perhaps more’ I asked what he meant by that, for he was very seriousThis was when we had come back to town, and he was having a cup of tea before starting on his return to AmsterdamHe would not give me any further clueYou must not be angry with me, Art, because his very reticence means that all his brains are working for her goodHe will speak plainly enough when the time comes, be sureSo I told him I would simply write an account of our visit, just as if I were doing a descriptive special article for THE DAILY TELEGRAPHHe seemed not to notice, but remarked that the smuts of London were not quite so bad as they used to be when he was a student hereI am to get his report tomorrow if he can possibly make itIn any case I am to have a letter

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