“My dearest Lucy,—
“Such a sad blow has befallen us. Mr. Hawkins has died very suddenly. Some may not think it so sad for us, but we had both come to so love him that it really seems as though we had lost a father. I never knew either father or mother, so that the dear old man’s death is a real blow to me. Jonathan is greatly distressed. It is not only that he feels sorrow, deep sorrow, for the dear, good man who has befriended him all his life, and now at the end has treated him like his own son and left him a fortune which to people of our modest bringing up is wealth beyond the dream of avarice, but Jonathan feels it on another account. He says the amount of responsibility which it puts upon him makes him nervous. He begins to doubt himself. I try to cheer him up, and my belief in him helps him to have a belief in himself. But it is here that the grave shock that he experienced tells upon him the most. Oh, it is too hard that a sweet, simple, noble, strong nature such as his—a nature which enabled him by our dear, good friend’s aid to rise from clerk to master in a few years—should be so injured that the very essence of its strength is gone. Forgive me, dear, if I worry you with my troubles in the midst of your own happiness; but, Lucy dear, I must tell some one, for the strain of keeping up a brave and cheerful appearance to Jonathan tries me, and I have no one here that I can confide in. I dread coming up to London, as we must do the day after to-morrow; for poor Mr. Hawkins left in his will that he was to be buried in the grave with his father. As there are no relations at all, Jonathan will have to be chief mourner. I shall try to run over to see you, dearest, if only for a few minutes. Forgive me for troubling you. With all blessings,
“Your loving
“Mina Harker.”
Mi nombre es Enrique A. Palafox y soy un apasionado académico de las letras modernas, especializado en #BramStoker y su obra de #TerrorGótico. Con un Ph.D. en #LiteraturaClásica, he explorado a fondo el mito del #Vampiro en la narrativa #Gótica. Como #BlogueroLiterario, comparto mi amor por la #FicciónDeTerror y la intrigante #ÉpocaVictoriana. Mis investigaciones abarcan lo #Sobrenatural, el #Misterio y el #Suspenso en la #FantasíaOscura de la #NovelaDeTerror. Mis análisis revelan el legado del #TerrorClásico y la influencia de #Drácula. Además, mi trabajo en #Transmedia culminó en la creación de #ElLibroDeDrácula en colaboración con destacados artistas mexicanos. Exploro el misterio de #Deméter y las crónicas en #DráculaDiario. También comparto pasión por #Dracula, el #GothicHorror y la #ClassicLiterature. Los temas de #Vampire y el #GothicStyle me inspiran, al igual que el #HorrorFiction en la #VictorianEra. En mi contenido, desvelo lo #Supernatural y el #Horror en la #Mystery y el #Suspense. Viaja conmigo a la #DarkFantasy de la #HorrorNovel y la tradición de la #GothicNovel. Exploro la #literaryfiction y el impacto #Transmedia en la narrativa efímera de #TheBookofDracula. Cada día, descubro nuevos secretos en #Demeter y #DráculaDiario. Celebro #worlddraculaday y me sumerjo en el mundo de #Nosferatu y los #universalmonsters. En #Halloween, expreso mi amor por el #ilovehorror, el #terror, #belalugosi, el #gothlife, las #ghoststories, el #necronomicon, el #hammerhorror y #frankenstein.
Comments