Another quiet day, and to bed with the key on my wrist
MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL
13 August.--Another quiet day, and
to bed with the key on my wrist as before. Again I awoke in the night,
and found Lucy sitting up in bed, still asleep, pointing to the window.
I got up quietly, and pulling aside the blind, looked out. It was
brilliant moonlight, and the soft effect of the light over the sea and
sky, merged together in one great silent mystery, was beautiful beyond
words. Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and
going in great whirling circles. Once or twice it came quite close, but
was, I suppose,frightened at seeing me, and flitted away across the
harbour towards the abbey. When I came back from the window Lucy had
lain down again, and was sleeping peacefully. She did not stir again
all night.
"Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great whirling circles."
A bit of trivia: The bat (or Dracula-as-bat), in Stoker's novel, appears only in England. There are no references to bats in Castle Dracula.
Posted by: Elizabeth | August 13, 2007 at 09:41 AM
One could link it with Dracula's youthfulness, couldn't one? Signs of the successful migration to another land.
Posted by: Bryan Alexander | August 13, 2007 at 06:00 PM