“ I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me. ”
Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897). copy citation
| Author | Bram Stoker |
|---|---|
| Source | Dracula |
| Topic | freedom master vampire |
| Date | 1897 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/345/345-h/345-h.htm |
Context
“But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one; men know him not—and to know not is to care not for. I am content if I am like the rest, so that no man stops if he see me, or pause in his speaking if he hear my words, 'Ha, ha! a stranger!' I have been so long master that I would be master still—or at least that none other should be master of me. You come to me not alone as agent of my friend Peter Hawkins, of Exeter, to tell me all about my new estate in London. You shall, I trust, rest here with me awhile, so that by our talking I may learn the English intonation; and I would that you tell me when I make error, even of the smallest, in my speaking.”
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