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“But" — he sighed — "the line between literature and history is often a wobbling one, and I am not an historian.”

"Oh, I know", he said grimly. "I know the look of that face. It is the expression of the undead. There is no other face like that. I have seen it before."

“He might have said instead that he didn't like the painting to look at him, I thought.” EW

“Perhaps it was just the contagion of my father's letters, but everything looked suspicious to me now. It was as if we were being followed by eyes I could not see.”

Ominous, lots of creepy coincidences, and feeling quite slow at the moment

"Get out of here, Romanian daughter of wolves. You and your friend bring the curse of the vampire to our city."

Part two!!

"Don't you ever call or write her?"
She stared. "Oh, the West is such an innocent place," she said finally. "Do you think she has a telephone? Do you think my letters are not opened and read every time?"
I was silent, chastened.

What!!!??