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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: to comfort me. Well, she succeeded somewhat, for, though sympathy
can't alter facts, it can make them more bearable.
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,
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