Chapter 15-1

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Chapter 15 DR. SEWARD’S DIARY-cont. For a while sheer anger mastered me. It was as if he had during her life struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to him, ‘Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?’ He raised his head and looked at me, and somehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. ‘Would I were!’ he said. ‘Madness were easy to bear compared with truth like this. Oh, my friend, why, think you, did I go so far round, why take so long to tell so simple a thing? Was it because I hate you and have hated you all my life? Was it because I wished to give you pain? Was it that I wanted, now so late, revenge for that time when you saved my life, and from a fearful death? Ah no!’ ‘Forgive me,’ said I. He went on, ‘My friend, it was because I wished to be gentle in t

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