The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: a gallant gentleman.
NOTE
Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness
of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.
It is an added joy to Mina and to me that our boy's birthday is the same
day as that on which Quincey Morris died. His mother holds, I know,
the secret belief that some of our brave friend's spirit has passed into him.
His bundle of names links all our little band of men together.
But we call him Quincey.
In the summer of this year we made a journey to Transylvania,
and went over the old ground which was, and is, to us so full
Dracula |