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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: But, of course, you do not know me, yet, and I must not expect you to trust
me so far."
He is certainly a man of noble nature. Poor dear Lucy was right about him.
He stood up and opened a large drawer, in which were arranged in order
a number of hollow cylinders of metal covered with dark wax, and said,
"You are quite right. I did not trust you because I did not
know you. But I know you now, and let me say that I should
have known you long ago. I know that Lucy told you of me.
She told me of you too. May I make the only atonement in my power?
Take the cylinders and hear them. The first half-dozen
of them are personal to me, and they will not horrify you.
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