Dracula, Chapter 11: samenvatting

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1. Mrs. Westenra removes Lucy’s garlic and opens her window; Lucy weakens again, and Van Helsing supplies blood for another transfusion.
2. Lucy records four peaceful days under Van Helsing’s care and expects to manage without him during his absence.
3. A newspaper interview describes Bersicker’s escape after a strange visitor approaches him, and his return with glass in his wounded head.
4. Seward’s patient cuts his wrist and licks the spilled blood; Van Helsing’s urgent telegram arrives twenty-two hours late.
5. A wolf breaks Lucy’s window, and her frightened mother tears away the garlic wreath before dying.
6. Lucy finds the four maids drugged with laudanum and writes a memorandum while alone beside her mother’s body.

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Lucy’s mother is dead, and the drugged servants cannot help her. The cry marks her complete isolation after the failure of her protection.

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