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When I went into the dining - room , breakfast was prepared ; but I could not find the Count anywhere . So I breakfasted alone . It is strange that as yet I have not seen the Count eat or drink . He must be a very peculiar man ! After breakfast I did a little exploring in the castle . I went out on the stairs , and found a room looking towards the South . The view was magnificent , and from where I stood there was every opportunity of seeing it . The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice . A stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without touching anything ! As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree tops , with occasionally a deep rift where there is a chasm . Here and there are silver threads where the rivers wind in deep gorges through the forests . But I am not in heart to describe beauty , for when I had seen the view I explored further ; doors , doors , doors everywhere , and all locked and bolted . In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit . The castle is a veritable prison , and I am a prisoner ! CHAPTER III JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL — continued WHEN I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over me . I rushed up and down the stairs , trying every door and peering out of every window I could find ; but after a little the conviction of my helplessness overpowered all other feelings . When I look back after a few hours I think I must have been mad for the time , for I behaved much as a rat does in a trap . When , however , the conviction had come to me that I was helpless I sat down quietly — as quietly as I have ever done anything in my life — and began to think over what was best to be done . I am thinking still , and as yet have come to no definite conclusion . Of one thing only am I certain ; that it is no use making my ideas known to the Count . He knows well that I am imprisoned ; and as he has done it himself , and has doubtless his own motives for it , he would only deceive me if I trusted him fully with the facts . So far as I can see , my only plan will be to keep my knowledge and my fears to myself , and my eyes open . I am , I know , either being deceived , like a baby , by my own fears , or else I am in desperate straits ; and if the latter be so , I need , and shall need , all my brains to get through . I had hardly come to this conclusion when I heard the great door below shut , and knew that the Count had returned . He did not come at once into the library , so I went cautiously to my own room and found him making the bed . This was odd , but only confirmed what I had all along thought — that there were no servants in the house .
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