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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: beauty that I shudder as though I have come to do murder.
Ah, I doubt not that in the old time, when such things were,
many a man who set forth to do such a task as mine, found at
the last his heart fail him, and then his nerve. So he delay,
and delay, and delay, till the mere beauty and the fascination
of the wanton Undead have hypnotize him. And he remain
on and on, till sunset come, and the Vampire sleep be over.
Then the beautiful eyes of the fair woman open and look love,
and the voluptuous mouth present to a kiss, and the man is weak.
And there remain one more victim in the Vampire fold.
One more to swell the grim and grisly ranks of the Undead!. . .
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