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MINA MURRAY’S DIARY, 25th May: My dear Jonathan has been gone almost a week and, although I was disappointed we could not marry before his departure, I am happy that he got sent on this important assignment. I am longing to hear all the news. It must be so nice to see strange countries. I wonder if we, I mean Jonathan and I, shall ever see them together?

MINA MURRAY’S DIARY, 30th May: I know that Jonathan does not want me to stay here with Lucy while he is away. I thinks that if I become accustomed to the wealth and privileges of the Westenra family, I will not be content as the wife of a mere clerk in a law firm. But Lucy and I have been friends since we were children and she has never minded that I’m only a school mistress.

MINA MURRAY’S DIARY: Lucy is a pure and virtuous girl, but I admit that her free way of speaking shocks me sometimes. Jonathan says it’s a defect of the aristocracy that they say
what they please. The truth is that I admire Lucy, and I’m not surprised that men flock around her. I wish I were as pretty and as adored as she is.

LETTER FROM SISTER AGATHA TO MINA MURRAY:
Dear Madam, your fiance is safe and in the care of the good sisters of the blessed sacrement. Mr. Harker believes your life is in extreme danger, and he desires with all urgency that you join him here so that you may immediately be married. Yours with all
blessings, Sister Agatha.

MINA MURRAY’S DIARY, 17th September: Poor Jonathan, still so ill. He is cheered by the familiar streets of London. For me, now that Lucy is dead, it is a sad homecoming. It’s as if a part of me is dead, too, except for the tiny hope that lives in me that I will again see my Prince. Is he here? Now that I am married, I begin to understand the nature of my feelings for my strange friend who is always in my thoughts.

MINA HARKER’S DIARY: There, in the presence of God, I understood at last how my love could release us all from the powers of darkness. Our love is stronger than death.

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