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27,681	true	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/chapters_1_to_2.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_1_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapters 1-2	chapters 1-2	null	{"name": "Chapters 1-2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapters-12", "summary": "Before any characters appear, the time and geography are made clear. Though it is the last war that England and France waged for a ...	"Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared: The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold: Say, is my kingdom lost?" SHAKESPEARE. It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and a...	6,471	Chapters 1-2	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapters-12	Before any characters appear, the time and geography are made clear. Though it is the last war that England and France waged for a country that neither would retain, the wilderness between the forces still has to be overcome first. Thus it is in 1757, in the New York area between the head waters of the Hudson River and...	These two chapters introduce the reader to the historical and natural settings and are indicative of the extent to which this book, as a historical novel, relates its fictional characters to real history. Only here at the beginning and later at mid-novel will the action coincide in detail with actual events, though the...	388	473	[ "\n \"Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared:\n The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold:\n Say, is my kingdom lost?\"", "SHAKESPEARE.", "It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that\nthe toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before\nthe adverse hosts could m...	[ "The facilities which nature had there offered to the march of the\ncombatants were too obvious to be neglected.", "The lengthened sheet of the\nChamplain stretched from the frontiers of Canada, deep within the\nborders of the neighboring province of New York, forming a natural\npassage across half the distance t...	[ "'Tis the six-and-twentieth edition,\npromulgated at Boston, Anno Domini 1744; and is entitled, _The Psalms,\nHymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testaments; faithfully\ntranslated into English Metre, for the Use, Edification, and Comfort of\nthe Saints, in Public and Private, especially in New England_.\...	[ "\"Sola, sola, wo, ha, ho, sola!\"", "SHAKESPEARE.", "While one of the lovely beings we have so cursorily presented to the\nreader was thus lost in thought, the other quickly recovered from the\nalarm which induced the exclamation, and, laughing at her own weakness,\nshe inquired of the youth who rode by her si...	[ "\n \"Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared:\n The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold:\n Say, is my kingdom lost?\"", "SHAKESPEARE.", "It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that\nthe toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before\nthe adverse hosts could m...	warrior should feel, in finding an enemy within reach of his blow. The news had been brought, towards the decline of a day in midsummer, by an Indian runner, who also bore an urgent request from Munro, the commander of a work on the shore of the "holy lake," for a speedy and powerful reinforcement. It has already been...	"Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared: The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold: Say, is my kingdom lost?" SHAKESPEARE. It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and appare...	the dress of an officer, conducted to their steeds two females, who, as it was apparent by their dresses, were prepared to encounter the fatigues of a journey in the woods. One, and she was the most juvenile in her appearance, though both were young, permitted glimpses of her dazzling complexion, fair golden hair, and...
27,681	false	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/03.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_2_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter 3	chapter 3	null	{"name": "Chapter 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-3", "summary": "In another part of the forest by the river a few miles to the west, Hawkeye and Chingachgook appear to be waiting for someone as they ta...	"Before these fields were shorn and tilled, Full to the brim our rivers flowed; The melody of waters filled The fresh and boundless wood; And torrents dashed, and rivulets played, And fountains spouted in the shade." BRYANT. Leaving the unsuspecting Heyward and his confiding companions to penetr...	3,132	Chapter 3	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-3	In another part of the forest by the river a few miles to the west, Hawkeye and Chingachgook appear to be waiting for someone as they talk with low voices. It is now afternoon. The Indian and the scout are attired according to their forest habits: Chingachgook with his semi-nude, war-painted body and scalping tuft of h...	This chapter introduces the other three main actors in the story. Through the talk of the scout and the senior Indian, the rightness of racial "gifts" is established. Their discussion of differences between currents and tides, between the large salt ocean and the smaller fresh lakes, reflects the novel's central motif ...	198	149	[ "\n \"Before these fields were shorn and tilled,\n Full to the brim our rivers flowed;\n The melody of waters filled\n The fresh and boundless wood;\n And torrents dashed, and rivulets played,\n And fountains spouted in the shade.\"", "BRYANT.", "Leaving the unsuspecting Heyward and his confiding co...	[ "Still that breathing silence, which marks the drowsy\nsultriness of an American landscape in July, pervaded the secluded spot,\ninterrupted only by the low voices of the men, the occasional and lazy\ntap of a woodpecker, the discordant cry of some gaudy jay, or a swelling\non the ear, from the dull roar of a dista...	[ "Now, on the\nsmall scale, the 'arth is level; but on the large scale it is round.", "\"He's a boy!\"", "These feeble and broken sounds were, however, too familiar to the\nforesters, to draw their attention from the more interesting matter of\ntheir dialogue.", "said the white man, shaking his head while he s...	[ "The land we had taken\nlike warriors, we kept like men.", "We drove the Maquas into the woods with\nthe bears.", "They only tasted salt at the licks; they drew no fish from\nthe great lake; we threw them the bones.\"", "\"All this I have heard and believe,\" said the white man, observing that\nthe Indian pau...	[ "\n \"Before these fields were shorn and tilled,\n Full to the brim our rivers flowed;\n The melody of waters filled\n The fresh and boundless wood;\n And torrents dashed, and rivulets played,\n And fountains spouted in the shade.\"", "BRYANT.", "Leaving the unsuspecting Heyward and his confiding co...	des, and which were gartered above the knees with the sinews of a deer. A pouch and horn completed his personal accoutrements, though a rifle of great length[7], which the theory of the more ingenious whites had taught them was the most dangerous of all fire-arms, leaned against a neighboring sapling. The eye of the hu...	"Before these fields were shorn and tilled, Full to the brim our rivers flowed; The melody of waters filled The fresh and boundless wood; And torrents dashed, and rivulets played, And fountains spouted in the shade." BRYANT. Leaving the unsuspecting Heyward and his confiding companions to penetrate s...	ey run out, and the reason is this: when there is higher water in the sea than in the river, they run in, until the river gets to be highest, and then it runs out again." "The waters in the woods, and on the great lakes, run downward until they lie like my hand," said the Indian, stretching the limb horizontally before...
27,681	false	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/04.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_3_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter 4	chapter 4	null	{"name": "Chapter 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-4", "summary": "When the mounted party from Fort Howard approaches the three men of the woods, Hawkeye addresses first Gamut and then Heyward only to le...	"Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury." _Midsummer Night's Dream._ The words were still in the mouth of the scout, when the leader of the party, whose approaching footsteps had caught the vigilant ear of the Indian, came openly into view. A beaten path, such as ...	3,075	Chapter 4	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-4	When the mounted party from Fort Howard approaches the three men of the woods, Hawkeye addresses first Gamut and then Heyward only to learn that they are lost because their Indian guide has taken them west instead of north toward Fort William Henry. Doubtful, especially when he learns that the guide is a Huron who has ...	Since this chapter is mostly one of surface action, little comment is needed except to point out Hawkeye's respect for the military and the fact that all Iroquois tribes are to be looked upon as treacherous enemies. The alertness and swift action of Magua, who is more of a threat when they do not know his whereabouts, ...	319	75	[ "\n \"Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove\n Till I torment thee for this injury.\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nThe words were still in the mouth of the scout, when the leader of the\nparty, whose approaching footsteps had caught the vigilant ear of the\nIndian, came openly into view.", "A ...	[ "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nThe words were still in the mouth of the scout, when the leader of the\nparty, whose approaching footsteps had caught the vigilant ear of the\nIndian, came openly into view.", "\"An Indian lost in the woods!\"", "'Tis strange that an Indian should be lost atwixt Horican\nand the...	[ "\"A Mingo is a Mingo, and God having made him so, neither the Mohawks nor\nany other tribe can alter him,\" he said, when he had regained his former\nposition.", "\"And I tell you that he who is born a Mingo will die a Mingo,\" returned\nthe other, positively.", "\"Now, go you back,\" said the hunter, speaking...	[ "\"And why?", "they are fatigued, but they are quite equal to a ride of a few\nmore miles.\"", "\"'Tis a natural impossibility!\"", "repeated the scout; \"I wouldn't walk a\nmile in these woods after night gets into them, in company with that\nrunner, for the best rifle in the colonies.", "They are full of ...	[ "\n \"Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove\n Till I torment thee for this injury.\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nThe words were still in the mouth of the scout, when the leader of the\nparty, whose approaching footsteps had caught the vigilant ear of the\nIndian, came openly into view.", "A ...	Is he a Mohawk?" "Not by birth, though adopted in that tribe; I think his birthplace was farther north, and he is one of those you call a Huron." "Hugh!" exclaimed the two companions of the scout, who had continued, until this part of the dialogue, seated immovable, and apparently indifferent to what passed, but who n...	"Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury." _Midsummer Night's Dream._ The words were still in the mouth of the scout, when the leader of the party, whose approaching footsteps had caught the vigilant ear of the Indian, came openly into view. A beaten path, such as tho...	such ladies in your company 'tis impossible!" "And why? they are fatigued, but they are quite equal to a ride of a few more miles." "'Tis a natural impossibility!" repeated the scout; "I wouldn't walk a mile in these woods after night gets into them, in company with that runner, for the best rifle in the colonies. They...
27,681	false	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/05.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_4_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter 5	chapter 5	null	{"name": "Chapter 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-5", "summary": "The pursuit of Magua is unsuccessful, but Hawkeye feels that he has wounded him slightly and is certain of it when they find bloodstains...	"In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew; And saw the lion's shadow ere himself." _Merchant of Venice._ The suddenness of the flight of his guide, and the wild cries of the pursuers, caused Heyward to remain fixed, for a few moments, in inactive surprise. Then recollecting ...	3,268	Chapter 5	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-5	The pursuit of Magua is unsuccessful, but Hawkeye feels that he has wounded him slightly and is certain of it when they find bloodstains on the sumach leaves. Heyward wants to continue the chase, but the scout fears an ambush, particularly since he has fired his rifle, an action for which he upbraids himself. With nigh...	Here the reader encounters the first bloodshed born of war. The wounding of Magua and the killing of the innocent colt stand in contrast to the preceding shooting of the deer for food. Now that the two parties have become one by virtue of survival necessities, Hawkeye shows his skill as a woodsman who also knows his en...	329	156	[ "\n \"In such a night\n Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew;\n And saw the lion's shadow ere himself.\"", "_Merchant of Venice._\n\n\nThe suddenness of the flight of his guide, and the wild cries of the\npursuers, caused Heyward to remain fixed, for a few moments, in inactive\nsurprise.",...	[ "\"'Tis the blood of Le Subtil!", "It was an unthoughtful act in a man who has so\noften slept with the war-whoop ringing in the air, to let off his piece\nwithin sound of an ambushment!", "This appalling declaration, which the scout uttered with the cool\nassurance of a man who fully comprehended, while he did...	[ "'twas very natural!", "I have heard\nthat the Delawares have laid aside the hatchet, and are content to be\ncalled women!\"", "Water leaves no trail, and an owl's eyes\nwould be blinded by the darkness of such a hole.\"", "\"I should be sorry to think they had, though this is a spot that stout\ncourage might...	[ "Draw to your arrow's head, Uncas; we have no time for second blows.\"", "The low, muttering sounds of his threatening voice were still audible,\nwhen the wounded foal, first rearing on its hinder legs, plunged forward\nto its knees.", "It was met by Chingachgook, whose knife passed across its\nthroat quicker t...	[ "\n \"In such a night\n Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew;\n And saw the lion's shadow ere himself.\"", "_Merchant of Venice._\n\n\nThe suddenness of the flight of his guide, and the wild cries of the\npursuers, caused Heyward to remain fixed, for a few moments, in inactive\nsurprise.",...	, which glided past the spot where he stood, was to be traced only by the dark boundary of its wooded banks. "What is to be done?" he said, feeling the utter helplessness of doubt in such a pressing strait; "desert me not, for God's sake! remain to defend those I escort, and freely name your own reward!" His companions...	"In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew; And saw the lion's shadow ere himself." _Merchant of Venice._ The suddenness of the flight of his guide, and the wild cries of the pursuers, caused Heyward to remain fixed, for a few moments, in inactive surprise. Then recollecting the...	oon concealed by the projection of the bank, under the brow of which they moved, in a direction opposite to the course of the waters. In the meantime, the scout drew a canoe of bark from its place of concealment beneath some low bushes, whose branches were waving with the eddies of the current, into which he silently m...
27,681	false	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/06.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_5_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter 6	chapter 6	null	{"name": "Chapter 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-6", "summary": "Heyward and the girls are uneasy and Gamut is still struggling in spirit when a light flashes upon them and they see that the others hav...	"Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide; He wales a portion with judicious care; And 'Let us worship God,' he says, with solemn air." BURNS. Heyward, and his female companions, witnessed this mysterious movement with secret uneasiness; for, though the conduct of the white man had hitherto been abov...	3,873	Chapter 6	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-6	Heyward and the girls are uneasy and Gamut is still struggling in spirit when a light flashes upon them and they see that the others have entered a cavern hidden by a blanket. Hawkeye is holding a blazing knot of pine which silhouettes Uncas, the first clear sight of whose carriage and almost Grecian features relieves ...	This chapter shows Cooper in his most inventive, dramatic, and descriptive form. His sympathy and admiration for the good Indians ring through his own delineations and the appreciative words of Heyward, Alice, and Cora. By putting the poetic description of the island and falls into the mouth of Hawkeye, he reveals his ...	321	128	[ "\n \"Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide;\n He wales a portion with judicious care;\n And 'Let us worship God,' he says, with solemn air.\"", "BURNS.", "Heyward, and his female companions, witnessed this mysterious movement\nwith secret uneasiness; for, though the conduct of the white man had\nh...	[ "It was the first opportunity\npossessed by Duncan and his companions, to view the marked lineaments of\neither of their Indian attendants, and each individual of the party felt\nrelieved from a burden of doubt, as the proud and determined, though\nwild expression of the features of the young warrior forced itself ...	[ "I'm an admirator of names, though the Christian fashions\nfall far below savage customs in this particular.", "The young hounds go laughing and singing\ntoo much already through the woods, when they ought not to breathe\nlouder than a fox in his cover.", "Would to God, that he who\nholds the honor of our royal...	[ "How do you name\nyourself?\"", "\"Gamut--David Gamut,\" returned the singing-master, preparing to wash\ndown his sorrows in a powerful draught of the woodman's high-flavored\nand well-laced compound.", "\"A very good name, and, I dare say, handed down from honest\nforefathers.", "I'm an admirator of names, t...	[ "\n \"Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide;\n He wales a portion with judicious care;\n And 'Let us worship God,' he says, with solemn air.\"", "BURNS.", "Heyward, and his female companions, witnessed this mysterious movement\nwith secret uneasiness; for, though the conduct of the white man had\nh...	mine into the security of your fortress," he answered, "and then we will speak of rest." He approached the farther end of the cavern, to an outlet, which, like the others, was concealed by blankets, and removing the thick screen, breathed the fresh and reviving air from the cataract. One arm of the river flowed through...	"Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide; He wales a portion with judicious care; And 'Let us worship God,' he says, with solemn air." BURNS. Heyward, and his female companions, witnessed this mysterious movement with secret uneasiness; for, though the conduct of the white man had hitherto been above rep...	strong resemblance between father and son, with the difference that might be expected from age and hardships. The fierceness of his countenance now seemed to slumber, and in its place was to be seen the quiet, vacant composure, which distinguishes an Indian warrior, when his faculties are not required for any of the gr...
27,681	true	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/chapters_7_to_8.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_6_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapters 7-8	chapters 7-8	null	{"name": "Chapters 7-8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapters-78", "summary": "Feeling that the cry is some kind of warning, whether intended or not, Hawkeye leads the entire party from the caves. As Heyward re...	"They do not sleep. On yonder cliffs, a grisly band, I see them sit." GRAY. "'Twould be neglecting a warning that is given for our good, to lie hid any longer," said Hawkeye, "when such sounds are raised in the forest! The gentle ones may keep close, but the Mohicans and I will watch upon th...	7,748	Chapters 7-8	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapters-78	Feeling that the cry is some kind of warning, whether intended or not, Hawkeye leads the entire party from the caves. As Heyward remarks upon the loveliness of the scene, the horrifying sound comes again as if from the bed of the river, and Heyward now recognizes it as the shriek of a horse in terror. The scout's recko...	While outwardly these two chapters are concerned chiefly with fright and action for entertaining the reader and multiplying difficulties for the characters, it also portrays the bloody cross-purposes of frontier strife: seven Iroquois are killed and two white men are wounded, while the male protagonists are finally con...	612	457	[ "\n \"They do not sleep.", "On yonder cliffs, a grisly band,\n I see them sit.\"", "GRAY.", "\"'Twould be neglecting a warning that is given for our good, to lie hid\nany longer,\" said Hawkeye, \"when such sounds are raised in the forest!", "The gentle ones may keep close, but the Mohican...	[ "\"I cannot deny your words,\" he said; \"for I am little skilled in horses,\nthough born where they abound.", "In such circumstances, common\nprudence dictated that Heyward and his companions should imitate a\ncaution that proceeded from so intelligent a source.", "The bright flashes and the quick reports of a...	[ "I have heard the forest moan like mortal men\nin their affliction; often, and again, have I listened to the wind\nplaying its music in the branches of the girdled trees; and I have heard\nthe lightning cracking in the air, like the snapping of blazing brush,\nas it spitted forth sparks and forked flames; but never...	[ "and I said it!\"", "muttered the scout, whirling the despised\nlittle implement over the falls with bitter disdain.", "\"Come on, ye bloody\nminded hell-hounds!", "ye meet a man without a cross!\"", "The words were barely uttered, when he encountered a savage of gigantic\nstature, and of the fiercest mien....	[ "\n \"They do not sleep.", "On yonder cliffs, a grisly band,\n I see them sit.\"", "GRAY.", "\"'Twould be neglecting a warning that is given for our good, to lie hid\nany longer,\" said Hawkeye, \"when such sounds are raised in the forest!", "The gentle ones may keep close, but the Mohican...	dren?" "Go to him, and say, that you left them with a message to hasten to their aid," returned Cora, advancing nigher to the scout, in her generous ardor; "that the Hurons bear them into the northern wilds, but that by vigilance and speed they may yet be rescued; and if, after all, it should please heaven that his ass...	"They do not sleep. On yonder cliffs, a grisly band, I see them sit." GRAY. "'Twould be neglecting a warning that is given for our good, to lie hid any longer," said Hawkeye, "when such sounds are raised in the forest! The gentle ones may keep close, but the Mohicans and I will watch upon the rock,...	e, and gradually exerting the power of their muscles for the mastery. At length, the toughened sinews of the white man prevailed over the less practised limbs of the native. The arm of the latter slowly gave way before the increasing force of the scout, who suddenly wresting his armed hand from the grasp of the foe, dr...
27,681	false	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/09.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_7_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter 9	chapter 9	null	{"name": "Chapter 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-9", "summary": "In the stillness that follows, Heyward finds it hard to believe what has happened, especially as nature seems to reassert itself with th...	"Be gay securely; Dispel, my fair, with smiles, the tim'rous clouds, That hang on thy clear brow." _Death of Agrippina._ The sudden and almost magical change, from the stirring incidents of the combat to the stillness that now reigned around him, acted on the heated imagination of ...	3,114	Chapter 9	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-9	In the stillness that follows, Heyward finds it hard to believe what has happened, especially as nature seems to reassert itself with the song of birds. Nonetheless, they all hide in the cave, Gamut still addled and Alice trembling and weeping against Cora's breast. The major closes the inner entrance with the blanket ...	With the woodsmen off the scene of action, this chapter presents the relative ineffectiveness of the "outsiders." As before, Alice is the sentimental heroine, trembling and ready to swoon so that she demands the attention of others. Gamut is still too much under the influence of his wound to learn anything from his sit...	254	244	[ "\n \"Be gay securely;\n Dispel, my fair, with smiles, the tim'rous clouds,\n That hang on thy clear brow.\"", "_Death of Agrippina._\n\n\nThe sudden and almost magical change, from the stirring incidents of the\ncombat to the stillness that now reigned around him, acted on the heated...	[ "A fish-hawk,\nwhich, secure on the topmost branches of a dead pine, had been a distant\nspectator of the fray, now stooped from his high and ragged perch, and\nsoared, in wide sweeps, above his prey; while a jay, whose noisy voice\nhad been stilled by the hoarser cries of the savages, ventured again to\nopen his d...	[ "his voice is too feeble to be heard amid the din of the\nfalls,\" was the answer; \"besides, the cavern will prove his friend.", "He observed by the vacant expression of the Indian's\ncountenance, that his eye, accustomed to the open air, had not yet been\nable to penetrate the dusky light which pervaded the dep...	[ "Exerting his renovated\npowers to their utmost, he was yet filling the arches of the cave with\nlong and full tones, when a yell burst into the air without, that\ninstantly stilled his pious strains, choking his voice suddenly, as\nthough his heart had literally bounded into the passage of his throat.", "\"We ar...	[ "\n \"Be gay securely;\n Dispel, my fair, with smiles, the tim'rous clouds,\n That hang on thy clear brow.\"", "_Death of Agrippina._\n\n\nThe sudden and almost magical change, from the stirring incidents of the\ncombat to the stillness that now reigned around him, acted on the heated...	wearied senses; and, leaning on the arm of his companion, he entered the narrow mouth of the cave. Duncan seized a pile of the sassafras, which he drew before the passage, studiously concealing every appearance of an aperture. Within this fragile barrier he arranged the blankets abandoned by the foresters, darkening t...	"Be gay securely; Dispel, my fair, with smiles, the tim'rous clouds, That hang on thy clear brow." _Death of Agrippina._ The sudden and almost magical change, from the stirring incidents of the combat to the stillness that now reigned around him, acted on the heated imagination of Hey...	et," returned the agitated but undaunted Heyward; "the sound came from the centre of the island, and it has been produced by the sight of their dead companions. We are not yet discovered, and there is still hope." Faint and almost despairing as was the prospect of escape, the words of Duncan were not thrown away, for i...
27,681	true	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/chapters_10_to_11.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_8_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapters 10-11	chapters 10-11	null	{"name": "Chapters 10-11", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1011", "summary": "Though at first menaced by the Hurons, Heyward is held for questioning, but he has to turn for interpretation to Magua, whom he...	"I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn As much as we this night have overwatched!" _Midsummer Night's Dream._ The instant the shock of this sudden misfortune had abated, Duncan began to make his observations on the appearance and proceedings of their captors. Contrary to the usages of the natives in the wa...	8,481	Chapters 10-11	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1011	Though at first menaced by the Hurons, Heyward is held for questioning, but he has to turn for interpretation to Magua, whom he sees Hawkeye had wounded on the shoulder. When he finally convinces them that the three woodsmen have escaped, they are furious, and one savage grabs Alice by the hair in a mock scalping. Befo...	These chapters are important for certain revelations and one presentation of status quo ante . The latter comes in Magua's explaining his past; his noble birth and his deserved but ignoble treatment by Munro do not justify his present actions, but they do make him and his conduct believable. They also raise the questio...	549	284	[ "\n \"I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn\n As much as we this night have overwatched!\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nThe instant the shock of this sudden misfortune had abated, Duncan began\nto make his observations on the appearance and proceedings of their\ncaptors.", "Contrary to the usages of ...	[ "Notwithstanding the Hurons were necessarily ignorant of the little\nchannels among the eddies and rapids of the stream, they knew the common\nsigns of such a navigation too well to commit any material blunder.", "The great chief so often mentioned, mounting the\ncharger of Heyward, led the way directly across th...	[ "The Huron chief was tied up before all the pale-faced warriors, and\nwhipped like a dog.\"", "His spirit was then in the\nclouds!", "When the summit\nwas gained, they found themselves on a level spot, but thinly covered\nwith trees, under one of which Magua had thrown his dark form, as if\nwilling and ready to...	[ "At first it seemed as if the remembrance of the promised reward\ngrew vivid in his mind, while he listened to the sources of parental\nfeeling which were to assure its possession; but as Duncan proceeded,\nthe expression of joy became so fiercely malignant, that it was\nimpossible not to apprehend it proceeded fro...	[ "\n \"I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn\n As much as we this night have overwatched!\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nThe instant the shock of this sudden misfortune had abated, Duncan began\nto make his observations on the appearance and proceedings of their\ncaptors.", "Contrary to the usages of ...	hesitate to assert the truth of the words, by gestures of applause and confirmation. Then the voice of the speaker fell, and lost the loud, animated tones of triumph with which he had enumerated their deeds of success and victory. He described the cataract of Glenn's; the impregnable position of its rocky island, with ...	"I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn As much as we this night have overwatched!" _Midsummer Night's Dream._ The instant the shock of this sudden misfortune had abated, Duncan began to make his observations on the appearance and proceedings of their captors. Contrary to the usages of the natives in the wanto...	ting-place than in its elevation and form, which might render defence easy, and surprise nearly impossible. As Heyward, however, no longer expected that rescue which time and distance now rendered so improbable, he regarded these little peculiarities with an eye devoid of interest, devoting himself entirely to the comf...
27,681	false	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/12.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_9_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter 12	chapter 12	null	{"name": "Chapter 12", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-12", "summary": "Since the Indians' rifles have been placed to the side, Hawkeye has found his, loaded it, and fired it. He and the Mohicans advance to...	"_Clo._--I am gone, sir, And anon, sir, I'll be with you again." _Twelfth Night._ The Hurons stood aghast at this sudden visitation of death on one of their band. But, as they regarded the fatal accuracy of an aim which had dared to immolate an enemy at so much hazard to a friend, the name of "La Longue...	5,182	Chapter 12	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-12	Since the Indians' rifles have been placed to the side, Hawkeye has found his, loaded it, and fired it. He and the Mohicans advance to hand-to-hand combat, Uncas jumping protectively in front of Cora and saving her a moment later by killing an Indian whose tomahawk has cut her bonds. Soon all the Hurons are dead except...	This is another bloody chapter, but its thematic significance is in the views of Gamut and Hawkeye. At first the psalmodist seems to have learned nothing from his recent experiences, yet it is notable that, whereas before he has done little more than sing and mouth religious platitudes, he now turns to doctrine and arg...	219	347	[ "\n \"_Clo._--I am gone, sir,\n And anon, sir,\n I'll be with you again.\"", "_Twelfth Night._\n\n\nThe Hurons stood aghast at this sudden visitation of death on one of\ntheir band.", "But, as they regarded the fatal accuracy of an aim which had\ndared to immolate an enemy at so much hazard to a friend, ...	[ "But the wary and vigilant leader of the Hurons was not so easily\ndisconcerted.", "As the combatants were now equal in number, each singled an opponent\nfrom the adverse band.", "The Delawares, who had believed\ntheir enemy dead, uttered their exclamation of surprise, and were\nfollowing with speed and clamor,...	[ "what have such as I,\nwho am a warrior of the wilderness, though a man without a cross, to do\nwith books?", "As Alice rose from her knees, where\nshe had sunk by the side of Cora, she threw herself on the bosom of the\nlatter; and sobbed aloud the name of their aged father, while her soft,\ndove-like eyes spark...	[ "I demand your authorities for such an uncharitable assertion\n(like other advocates of a system, David was not always accurate in his\nuse of terms).", "Name chapter and verse; in which of the holy books do you\nfind language to support you?\"", "\"Book!\"", "repeated Hawkeye, with singular and ill-concealed...	[ "\n \"_Clo._--I am gone, sir,\n And anon, sir,\n I'll be with you again.\"", "_Twelfth Night._\n\n\nThe Hurons stood aghast at this sudden visitation of death on one of\ntheir band.", "But, as they regarded the fatal accuracy of an aim which had\ndared to immolate an enemy at so much hazard to a friend, ...	with weapons; nor was ammunition wanting to render them all effectual. When the foresters had made their selection, and distributed their prizes, the scout announced that the hour had arrived when it was necessary to move. By this time the song of Gamut had ceased, and the sisters had learned to still the exhibition o...	"_Clo._--I am gone, sir, And anon, sir, I'll be with you again." _Twelfth Night._ The Hurons stood aghast at this sudden visitation of death on one of their band. But, as they regarded the fatal accuracy of an aim which had dared to immolate an enemy at so much hazard to a friend, the name of "La Longue Ca...	he scout, who by this time was seated, examining into the state of his rifle with a species of parental assiduity, now looked up at the other in a displeasure that he did not affect to conceal, roughly interrupting further speech. "Doctrine, or no doctrine," said the sturdy woodsman, "'tis the belief of knaves, and the...
27,681	true	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/chapters_13_to_14.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_10_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapters 13-14	chapters 13-14	null	{"name": "Chapters 13-14", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1314", "summary": "Now that the afternoon is shortening, Hawkeye leads the party many toilsome miles to an open space surrounding a low, green hil...	"I'll seek a readier path." PARNELL. The route taken by Hawkeye lay across those sandy plains, relieved by occasional valleys and swells of land, which had been traversed by their party on the morning of the same day, with the baffled Magua for their guide. The sun had now fallen low towards the distant mountai...	8,710	Chapters 13-14	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1314	Now that the afternoon is shortening, Hawkeye leads the party many toilsome miles to an open space surrounding a low, green hillock crowned by a rude, decayed block-house, the scene of a victorious youthful battle for Chingachgook and the scout. Under the hillock are the long-dead Mohawks, the memory of whom makes Hawk...	The story has now reached the end of the first long chase, during which one pattern of pursuit-capture-escape-and-pursuit is completed. But Cooper has made sure that the present safety for the main characters is only relative. He has made the reader aware that the defending English are far outnumbered and contained by ...	380	260	[ "\n \"I'll seek a readier path.\"", "PARNELL.", "The route taken by Hawkeye lay across those sandy plains, relieved by\noccasional valleys and swells of land, which had been traversed by their\nparty on the morning of the same day, with the baffled Magua for their\nguide.", "The sun had now fallen low toward...	[ "The eyes of the listeners involuntarily sought the forms of the Indians,\nwith a compassionate interest in their desolate fortune.", "The deeper tones of one who spoke as\nhaving authority were next heard, amid a silence that denoted the\nrespect with which his orders, or rather advice, was received.", "\"_Gua...	[ "\"D'ou venez-vous--ou allez-vous, d'aussi bonne heure?\"", "The sounds of approaching footsteps were now too distinctly audible to\nleave any doubts as to the nature of the interruption.", "\"Enough!\"", "He then took his wonted station, with the air of a man\nwho believed he had done a deed of merit.", "D...	[ "There are them in\nthe camp who say and think, man, to lie still, should not be buried\nwhile the breath is in the body; and certain it is that in the hurry of\nthat evening, the doctors had but little time to say who was living and\nwho was dead.", "Hist!", "see you nothing walking on the shore of the pond?\"...	[ "\n \"I'll seek a readier path.\"", "PARNELL.", "The route taken by Hawkeye lay across those sandy plains, relieved by\noccasional valleys and swells of land, which had been traversed by their\nparty on the morning of the same day, with the baffled Magua for their\nguide.", "The sun had now fallen low toward...	tance around the work, but every other part of the scene lay in the green livery of nature, except where the limpid water mellowed the view, or the bold rocks thrust their black and naked heads above the undulating outline of the mountain ranges. In its front might be seen the scattered sentinels, who held a weary watc...	"I'll seek a readier path." PARNELL. The route taken by Hawkeye lay across those sandy plains, relieved by occasional valleys and swells of land, which had been traversed by their party on the morning of the same day, with the baffled Magua for their guide. The sun had now fallen low towards the distant mountains; a...	iting until he was joined by the whole party, he spoke, though in tones so low and cautious, that they added to the solemnity of his words, in the quiet and darkness of the place. "It is easy to know the pathways, and to find the licks and water-courses of the wilderness," he said; "but who that saw this spot could ven...
27,681	false	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/15.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_11_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter 15	chapter 15	null	{"name": "Chapter 15", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-15", "summary": "The siege is now almost five days old, and when in the afternoon Major Heyward repairs to the ramparts of one of the water bastions, n...	"Then go we in, to know his embassy; Which I could, with ready guess, declare, Before the Frenchman speak a word of it." _King Henry V._ A few succeeding days were passed amid the privations, the uproar, and the dangers of the siege, which was vigorously pressed by a power against whose approaches Munro pos...	3,983	Chapter 15	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-15	The siege is now almost five days old, and when in the afternoon Major Heyward repairs to the ramparts of one of the water bastions, nature seems to have resumed "her mildest and most captivating form." Two white flags indicate that a truce has been made. The musing Heyward sees Hawkeye, bound and haggard, advancing to...	Since this is a kind of interlude chapter, Cooper primarily develops the contrasts of the situation. Quiet nature now stands opposite to the human battles that have occurred and are still potential. Munro and Montcalm are shown with their differences of temperament as well as of nationality. In the French camp, savager...	206	123	[ "\n \"Then go we in, to know his embassy;\n Which I could, with ready guess, declare,\n Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.\"", "_King Henry V._\n\n\nA few succeeding days were passed amid the privations, the uproar, and\nthe dangers of the siege, which was vigorously pressed by a power\nagainst whose app...	[ "He was without his favorite weapon, and his arms\nwere even bound behind him with thongs, made of the skin of a deer.", "The\narrival of flags, to cover the messengers of summons, had occurred so\noften of late, that when Heyward first threw his careless glance on this\ngroup, he expected to see another of the o...	[ "For the customary attentions of your Marquis of\nMontcalm--I warrant me, Duncan, that he of Lothian would buy a dozen\nsuch marquisates--but, if the news of the letter were bad, the gentility\nof this French monsieur would certainly compel him to let us know it.\"", "\"Our mounds are earthen, certainly--nor are ...	[ "I hope there is no reason to distrust\nhis fidelity?\"", "\"The fidelity of 'The Long Rifle' is well known to me,\" returned Munro,\n\"and is above suspicion; though his usual good fortune seems, at last,\nto have failed.", "Montcalm has got him, and with the accursed politeness\nof his nation, he has sent him...	[ "\n \"Then go we in, to know his embassy;\n Which I could, with ready guess, declare,\n Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.\"", "_King Henry V._\n\n\nA few succeeding days were passed amid the privations, the uproar, and\nthe dangers of the siege, which was vigorously pressed by a power\nagainst whose app...	to read his thoughts; then, with a readiness peculiar to himself, he continued, as if assenting to the truth of an enumeration which quite doubled his army,-- "It is a poor compliment to the vigilance of us soldiers, monsieur, that, do what we will, we never can conceal our numbers. If it were to be done at all, one ...	"Then go we in, to know his embassy; Which I could, with ready guess, declare, Before the Frenchman speak a word of it." _King Henry V._ A few succeeding days were passed amid the privations, the uproar, and the dangers of the siege, which was vigorously pressed by a power against whose approaches Munro posses...	their father. Munro was pacing his narrow apartment with a disturbed air and gigantic strides as Duncan entered. "You have anticipated my wishes, Major Heyward," he said; "I was about to request this favor." "I am sorry to see, sir, that the messenger I so warmly recommended has returned in custody of the French! I hop...
27,681	false	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/16.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_12_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter 16	chapter 16	null	{"name": "Chapter 16", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-16", "summary": "Back inside the fort, Heyward finds Munro with Alice running her fingers through his hair while Cora looks on with amusement. The girl...	"_Edg._--Before you fight the battle, ope this letter." _King Lear._ Major Heyward found Munro attended only by his daughters. Alice sat upon his knee, parting the gray hairs on the forehead of the old man with her delicate fingers; and, whenever he affected to frown on her trifling, appeasing his assumed anger...	3,998	Chapter 16	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-16	Back inside the fort, Heyward finds Munro with Alice running her fingers through his hair while Cora looks on with amusement. The girls exit and Munro, refusing to talk of Montcalm, reverts to something Heyward had said when he first arrived five days earlier. He is very upset when he learns that the major had thought ...	While the surrender of the fort is important in terms of plot, Munro's revelation about Cora is more important for thematic purposes. It is to Cooper's credit as a writer that he has presented Cora well enough that the revelation comes to the reader in terms of recognition rather than surprise. Cora's black hair and sl...	229	198	[ "\n \"_Edg._--Before you fight the battle, ope this letter.\"", "_King Lear._\n\n\nMajor Heyward found Munro attended only by his daughters.", "Alice sat upon\nhis knee, parting the gray hairs on the forehead of the old man with her\ndelicate fingers; and, whenever he affected to frown on her trifling,\nappeas...	[ "Away with you, ye baggage; as if there were not troubles enough for a\nsoldier, without having his camp filled with such prattling hussies as\nyourself!\"", "thank\nHeaven, we are not yet in such a strait that it can be said Munro is too\nmuch pressed to discharge the little domestic duties of his own family.", ...	[ "The\ninstant he caught a glimpse of the white plume that waved in the hat of\nMontcalm, his eye lighted, and age no longer appeared to possess any\ninfluence over his vast and still muscular person.", "\"And became the mother of Alice?\"", "\"I have solicited this interview from your superior, monsieur,\" he s...	[ "exclaimed the angry old man:\n\"enough to make a volume of commentary on French civility.", "Here has this\ngentleman invited me to a conference, and when I send him a capable\nsubstitute, for ye're all that, Duncan, though your years are but few,\nhe answers me with a riddle.\"", "\"He may have thought less f...	[ "\n \"_Edg._--Before you fight the battle, ope this letter.\"", "_King Lear._\n\n\nMajor Heyward found Munro attended only by his daughters.", "Alice sat upon\nhis knee, parting the gray hairs on the forehead of the old man with her\ndelicate fingers; and, whenever he affected to frown on her trifling,\nappeas...	g an open letter towards Munro, as he spoke; "you will there learn, monsieur, that his movements are not likely to prove embarrassing to my army." The veteran seized the offered paper, without waiting for Duncan to translate the speech, and with an eagerness that betrayed how important he deemed its contents. As his ey...	"_Edg._--Before you fight the battle, ope this letter." _King Lear._ Major Heyward found Munro attended only by his daughters. Alice sat upon his knee, parting the gray hairs on the forehead of the old man with her delicate fingers; and, whenever he affected to frown on her trifling, appeasing his assumed anger by...	be to let him behold the firm countenance we maintain in spite of his numbers and his summons. There might be no bad policy in such a stroke, young man." Duncan, who believed it of the last importance that they should speedily come at the contents of the letter borne by the scout, gladly encouraged this idea. "Without ...
27,681	false	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/17.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_13_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter 17	chapter 17	null	{"name": "Chapter 17", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-17", "summary": "It is just before day on the 10th of August 1757, as a cloaked figure emerges from the main French tent and moves beyond the farthest ...	"Weave we the woof. The thread is spun. The web is wove. The work is done." GRAY. The hostile armies, which lay in the wilds of the Horican, passed the night of the 9th of August, 1757, much in the manner they would had they encountered on the fairest fields of Europe. While the conquered were still, sullen, ...	5,041	Chapter 17	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-17	It is just before day on the 10th of August 1757, as a cloaked figure emerges from the main French tent and moves beyond the farthest outpost to stand against a tree near the western water bastion of the fort. Just as the huge form of Munro appears on the rampart, the dark profile of Magua comes from the lake shore and...	This is the bloodiest section of the novel and its outlines are a matter of history, though Cooper gives the instigation of it to Magua as part of his revenge. The contrast between savagery and civilized conduct is obvious, both in the incident at dawn between Montcalm and Magua and in the evacuation. In spite of his p...	288	162	[ "\n \"Weave we the woof.", "The thread is spun.", "The web is wove.", "The work is done.\"", "GRAY.", "The hostile armies, which lay in the wilds of the Horican, passed the\nnight of the 9th of August, 1757, much in the manner they would had they\nencountered on the fairest fields of Europe.", "While t...	[ "\"Le mot d'ordre?\"", "\"What can the Hurons do?\"", "returned the savage, speaking also, though\nimperfectly, in the French language.", "\"Good heavens!", "are not arrangements already made for their convenience?\"", "But, dearest Miss Munro, it is time to think\nless of others, and to make some provisi...	[ "The mother sank under the blow,\nand fell, grasping at her child, in death, with the same engrossing love\nthat had caused her to cherish it when living.", "Voices grew loud and angry, and a hundred savages appeared, as\nit were by magic, where a dozen only had been seen a minute before.", "But there are limit...	[ "The low\nand serious sounds of the sacred music, so well known to the eastern\nprovinces, caught his ear, and instantly drew him to an apartment in an\nadjacent building, which had already been deserted by its customary\ntenants.", "There he found David, pouring out his pious feelings, through\nthe only medium i...	[ "\n \"Weave we the woof.", "The thread is spun.", "The web is wove.", "The work is done.\"", "GRAY.", "The hostile armies, which lay in the wilds of the Horican, passed the\nnight of the 9th of August, 1757, much in the manner they would had they\nencountered on the fairest fields of Europe.", "While t...	the trifle, when the savage relinquished his hold of the shawl, and tore the screaming infant from her arms. Abandoning everything to the greedy grasp of those around her, the mother darted, with distraction in her mien, to reclaim her child. The Indian smiled grimly, and extended one hand, in sign of a willingness to...	"Weave we the woof. The thread is spun. The web is wove. The work is done." GRAY. The hostile armies, which lay in the wilds of the Horican, passed the night of the 9th of August, 1757, much in the manner they would had they encountered on the fairest fields of Europe. While the conquered were still, sullen, and dej...	so." "It is possible that the Indians and stragglers of the enemy may intrude, in which case you will remind them of the terms of the capitulation, and threaten to report their conduct to Montcalm. A word will suffice." "If not, I have that here which shall," returned David, exhibiting his book, with an air in which m...
27,681	true	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/chapters_18_to_19.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_14_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapters 18-19	chapters 18-19	null	{"name": "Chapters 18-19", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1819", "summary": "On the third day after the capture of the fort, the area is one of stillness and death, the fortress a smoldering ruin. The Aug...	"Why, anything: An honorable murderer, if you will; For naught I did in hate, but all in honor." _Othello._ The bloody and inhuman scene rather incidentally mentioned than described in the preceding chapter, is conspicuous in the pages of colonial history, by the merited title of "The Massacre...	8,639	Chapters 18-19	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1819	On the third day after the capture of the fort, the area is one of stillness and death, the fortress a smoldering ruin. The August mists have unseasonably become an interminable dusky sheet driven by the tempestuous northern air when an hour before sunset five men -- Hawkeye, the Mohicans, Munro, and Heyward -- emerge ...	At the beginning of this section, Cooper steps in as author to comment critically on the massacre and on Montcalm. His description of the natural scene is masterful, his presentation of the strewn battlefield quietly horrifying, the reactions of the five men individually typical of each. Hawkeye cannot feel that any hu...	354	418	[ "\n \"Why, anything:\n An honorable murderer, if you will;\n For naught I did in hate, but all in honor.\"", "_Othello._\n\n\nThe bloody and inhuman scene rather incidentally mentioned than\ndescribed in the preceding chapter, is conspicuous in the pages of\ncolonial history, by the merited title...	[ "But the task would exceed our prerogatives; and, as history,\nlike love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of\nimaginary brightness, it is probable that Louis de Saint Veran will be\nviewed by posterity only as the gallant defender of his country, while\nhis cruel apathy on the shores of the Oswe...	[ "\"They have found the little foot!\"", "\"Le Renard Subtil!\"", "\"What have we\nthere?", "I\nsee it in your eye, Sagamore: a Huron pays for this, afore the fall\nwinds have blown away the scent of the blood!\"", "\"Then ears are better than eyes,\" said the undisturbed scout, who,\nhaving just deposited a...	[ "Such a glittering gewgaw, and not to be seen!", "Well,\nwell, I can squint along a clouded barrel yet, and that is enough to\nsettle all disputes between me and the Mingos.", "I should like to find the\nthing too, if it were only to carry it to the right owner, and that\nwould be bringing the two ends of what ...	[ "\n \"Why, anything:\n An honorable murderer, if you will;\n For naught I did in hate, but all in honor.\"", "_Othello._\n\n\nThe bloody and inhuman scene rather incidentally mentioned than\ndescribed in the preceding chapter, is conspicuous in the pages of\ncolonial history, by the merited title...	fellow has mistaken us for French," said Heyward; "or he would not have attempted the life of a friend." "He mistake a Mohican in his paint for a Huron! You would be as likely to mistake the white-coated grenadiers of Montcalm for the scarlet jackets of the 'Royal Americans'," returned the scout. "No, no, the sarpent ...	"Why, anything: An honorable murderer, if you will; For naught I did in hate, but all in honor." _Othello._ The bloody and inhuman scene rather incidentally mentioned than described in the preceding chapter, is conspicuous in the pages of colonial history, by the merited title of "The Massacre of...	ommodations were deemed sufficient. The young Indian pointed towards his rude hut, when his labor was ended; and Heyward, who understood the meaning of the silent gesture, gently urged Munro to enter. Leaving the bereaved old man alone with his sorrows, Duncan immediately returned to the open air, too much excited hims...
27,681	true	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/chapters_20_to_21.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_15_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapters 20-21	chapters 20-21	null	{"name": "Chapters 20-21", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2021", "summary": "It is still dark when the party awakens and walks carefully on rocks, stones, and wood to the lake, where they shove off to the...	"Land of Albania! let me bend mine eyes On thee, thou rugged nurse of savage men!" _Childe Harold._ The heavens were still studded with stars, when Hawkeye came to arouse the sleepers. Casting aside their cloaks Munro and Heyward were on their feet while the woodsman was still making his low calls, at the ent...	8,028	Chapters 20-21	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2021	It is still dark when the party awakens and walks carefully on rocks, stones, and wood to the lake, where they shove off to the northward by canoe in a manner to leave no sign of departure. At dawn they enter the narrows of the lake with its numberless little islands. Discovering smoke in the mist above one of the isla...	These chapters are clearly devoted to the action of the new chase, emphasizing the dangers of frontier warfare and the subtleties of tracking. Even the unbelievable discovery of the moccasin print in the rillbed illustrates the ingenuity of both the pursued and the pursuers. Otherwise, only three matters of formality a...	394	150	[ "\n \"Land of Albania!", "let me bend mine eyes\n On thee, thou rugged nurse of savage men!\"", "_Childe Harold._\n\n\nThe heavens were still studded with stars, when Hawkeye came to arouse\nthe sleepers.", "Casting aside their cloaks Munro and Heyward were on their\nfeet while the woodsman was still making...	[ "let me bend mine eyes\n On thee, thou rugged nurse of savage men!\"", "You see\nthe mist, major, that is rising above the island; you can't call it a\nfog, for it is more like a streak of thin cloud--\"\n\n\"It is vapor from the water.\"", "The scout having ascertained that the Mohicans were sufficient of\nth...	[ "\"Softly, softly: we know our path; but it is good to examine the\nformation of things.", "The knave has long legs, though, and shall not be trusted.", "It was the sterile and rugged\ndistrict which separates the tributaries of Champlain from those of the\nHudson, the Mohawk, and the St. Lawrence.", "Under t...	[ "They soon reached a water-course, which they crossed, and\ncontinued onward, until they came to an extensive and naked rock.", "At\nthis point, where their footsteps might be expected to be no longer\nvisible, they retraced their route to the brook, walking backwards, with\nthe utmost care.", "They now followe...	[ "\n \"Land of Albania!", "let me bend mine eyes\n On thee, thou rugged nurse of savage men!\"", "_Childe Harold._\n\n\nThe heavens were still studded with stars, when Hawkeye came to arouse\nthe sleepers.", "Casting aside their cloaks Munro and Heyward were on their\nfeet while the woodsman was still making...	longer delayed by uncertainty. Before an hour had elapsed, however, the speed of Hawkeye sensibly abated, and his head, instead of maintaining its former direct and forward look, began to turn suspiciously from side to side, as if he were conscious of approaching danger. He soon stopped again, and waited for the whole...	"Land of Albania! let me bend mine eyes On thee, thou rugged nurse of savage men!" _Childe Harold._ The heavens were still studded with stars, when Hawkeye came to arouse the sleepers. Casting aside their cloaks Munro and Heyward were on their feet while the woodsman was still making his low calls, at the entran...	minated, the three instantly set about executing their new resolutions. The canoe was lifted from the water, and borne on the shoulders of the party. They proceeded into the wood, making as broad and obvious a trail as possible. They soon reached a water-course, which they crossed, and continued onward, until they came...
27,681	false	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/22.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_16_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter 22	chapter 22	null	{"name": "Chapter 22", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-22", "summary": "Hawkeye is filled with merriment at Gamut, whose body is painted and his head shaved to leave a tuft of hair. The scout summons the ot...	_"Bot._--Are we all met?" _"Qui._--Pat--pat; and here's a marvellous Convenient place for our rehearsal." _Midsummer Night's Dream._ The reader may better imagine, than we describe, the surprise of Heyward. His lurking Indians were suddenly converted into four-footed beasts; his lake into a beaver pond; hi...	4,023	Chapter 22	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-22	Hawkeye is filled with merriment at Gamut, whose body is painted and his head shaved to leave a tuft of hair. The scout summons the others by cawing like a crow, and the singing master tells what has become of the girls. According to policy, Magua has separated his prisoners, keeping Alice with the Hurons and sending C...	The motif of disguise, already foreshadowed by such procedures as imitating animals for signals, begins here in earnest and is to become a highly important ingredient of the plot during the rest of the story. Closely connected with this in terms of technique will be lurid, frightening scenes reminiscent of the Gothic n...	260	260	[ "\n _\"Bot._--Are we all met?\"", "_\"Qui._--Pat--pat; and here's a marvellous\n Convenient place for our rehearsal.\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nThe reader may better imagine, than we describe, the surprise of\nHeyward.", "His lurking Indians were suddenly converted into four-footed\nbeasts; his la...	[ "bluntly interrupted the scout.", "Uncas pressed closer to his side,\nand regarded the speaker with a look of commendation, while his father\nexpressed his satisfaction by the ordinary pithy exclamation of\napprobation.", "After\nessaying its virtues repeatedly, in contrast with his own voice, and\nsatisfying h...	[ "\"'Tis a long and melancholy tradition, and one I little like to think\nof; for it is not to be denied, that the evil has been mainly done by\nmen with white skins.", "Without removing the safeguards from his ears, the master of song\ncomplied, and together they pursued their way towards what David was\nsometime...	[ "Then the father spoke, in the language\nof the Delawares, and with a calmness and dignity that instantly\narrested the attention even of those to whom his words were\nunintelligible.", "His gestures were impressive, and at times energetic.", "Once he lifted his arm on high; and as it descended, the action thre...	[ "\n _\"Bot._--Are we all met?\"", "_\"Qui._--Pat--pat; and here's a marvellous\n Convenient place for our rehearsal.\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nThe reader may better imagine, than we describe, the surprise of\nHeyward.", "His lurking Indians were suddenly converted into four-footed\nbeasts; his la...	hat he knew were so abundantly peopled. It struck him, as he gazed at the admirable structures and the wonderful precautions of their sagacious inmates, that even the brutes of these vast wilds were possessed of an instinct nearly commensurate with his own reason; and he could not reflect, without anxiety, on the unequ...	_"Bot._--Are we all met?" _"Qui._--Pat--pat; and here's a marvellous Convenient place for our rehearsal." _Midsummer Night's Dream._ The reader may better imagine, than we describe, the surprise of Heyward. His lurking Indians were suddenly converted into four-footed beasts; his lake into a beaver pond; his cata...	om his red friend, saying-- "We have found that which may be good or evil to us, as Heaven disposes. The Sagamore is of the high blood of the Delawares, and is the great chief of their Tortoises! That some of this stock are among the people of whom the singer tells us, is plain, by his words; and had he but spent half...
27,681	true	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/chapters_23_to_24.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_17_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapters 23-24	chapters 23-24	null	{"name": "Chapters 23-24", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2324", "summary": "Typically the village has no guards, but the whooping of the children brings warriors to the door of the nearest lodge as Gamut...	"But though the beast of game The privilege of chase may claim; Though space and law the stag we lend Ere hound we slip, or bow we bend; Who ever recked, where, how, or when The prowling fox was trapped or slain?" _Lady of the Lake._ It is unusual to find an encampment of the natives, like those of th...	9,098	Chapters 23-24	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2324	Typically the village has no guards, but the whooping of the children brings warriors to the door of the nearest lodge as Gamut and Heyward approach the principal building, brush past savages to the center of the lodge, and seat themselves in silence. In the light of a torch, Heyward assumes the part of a French doctor...	Cooper's fresh and original treatment in this section of the story leads to three variations -- one in plot, one in motif, one in theme, and all involving Uncas directly or indirectly. In this second chase sequence, pursuit has again led to a capture, but the difference is that now one of the pursuers has been made cap...	501	286	[ "\n \"But though the beast of game\n The privilege of chase may claim;\n Though space and law the stag we lend\n Ere hound we slip, or bow we bend;\n Who ever recked, where, how, or when\n The prowling fox was trapped or slain?\"", "_Lady of the Lake._\n\n\nIt is unusual to find an encampment of the natives...	[ "\n \"But though the beast of game\n The privilege of chase may claim;\n Though space and law the stag we lend\n Ere hound we slip, or bow we bend;\n Who ever recked, where, how, or when\n The prowling fox was trapped or slain?\"", "Large piles of brush lay scattered about the clearing, and a wary and\naged...	[ "His countenance\nhad changed with each passing emotion, until it settled into a look of\ndeadly malice.", "Thought itself is not quicker\nthan was the motion with which the latter profited by the advantage; he\nturned, gleamed like a meteor again before the eyes of Duncan, and at\nthe next moment, when the latte...	[ "As the weapon passed slowly into his heart he\neven smiled, as if in joy at having found death less dreadful than he\nhad anticipated, and fell heavily on his face, at the feet of the rigid\nand unyielding form of Uncas.", "The squaw gave a loud and plaintive yell, dashed the torch to the earth,\nand buried ever...	[ "\n \"But though the beast of game\n The privilege of chase may claim;\n Though space and law the stag we lend\n Ere hound we slip, or bow we bend;\n Who ever recked, where, how, or when\n The prowling fox was trapped or slain?\"", "_Lady of the Lake._\n\n\nIt is unusual to find an encampment of the natives...	ered around the entrance, took up the words in an echo, which was succeeded by another shrill and plaintive howl. The latter was not yet ended, when the sensation among the men had entirely abated. Each one in presence seated himself, as though ashamed of his precipitation; but it was many minutes before their meaning ...	"But though the beast of game The privilege of chase may claim; Though space and law the stag we lend Ere hound we slip, or bow we bend; Who ever recked, where, how, or when The prowling fox was trapped or slain?" _Lady of the Lake._ It is unusual to find an encampment of the natives, like those of the m...	mb and joint discernible, and Duncan turned away in horror when he saw they were writhing in irrepressible agony. The woman was commencing a low and plaintive howl at the sad and shameful spectacle, when the chief put forth his hand and gently pushed her aside. "Reed-that-bends," he said, addressing the young culprit b...
27,681	false	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/25.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_18_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter 25	chapter 25	null	{"name": "Chapter 25", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-25", "summary": "Heyward wonders at Gamut's cryptic words but cannot think further on them because the chief sends away the women, turns toward his ins...	_"Snug._--Have you the lion's part written? Pray you, if it be, give it me, for I am slow of study." _"Quince_.--You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring." _Midsummer Night's Dream._ There was a strange blending of the ridiculous with that which was solemn in this scene. The beast still con...	4,683	Chapter 25	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-25	Heyward wonders at Gamut's cryptic words but cannot think further on them because the chief sends away the women, turns toward his insensible daughter, and says, "Now let my brother show his power." After the bear growls fiercely three times and the Huron superstitiously leaves, the former removes its head to reveal Ha...	The motif of unreality continues, but underneath the disguise is something quite real: Hawkeye under the bearskin, Heyward under the paint. For the sentimental character Alice, the disguise is too much. Hence the major washes himself, but the appearance of the bear, as well as the surprise and threat of Magua, is partl...	328	463	[ "\n _\"Snug._--Have you the lion's part written?", "Pray you, if it be, give\n it me, for I am slow of study.\"", "_\"Quince_.--You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nThere was a strange blending of the ridiculous with that which was\nsolemn in this sc...	[ "The beast still continued its rolling, and\napparently untiring movements, though its ludicrous attempt to imitate\nthe melody of David ceased the instant the latter abandoned the field.", "Peace!\"", "After we parted I placed the commandant and\nthe Sagamore in an old beaver lodge, where they are safer from t...	[ "Duncan kept close at his heels, and so found\nhimself in the centre of a cluster of twenty anxious relatives and\nfriends.", "He was implicitly, though\nreluctantly, obeyed; and when the low echo which rang along the hollow\nnatural gallery from the distant closing door had ceased, pointing\ntowards his insensib...	[ "Had he pursued the sudden and fierce impulse of the instant,\nhe would have cast himself on the Huron, and committed their fortunes to\nthe issue of a deadly struggle.", "But, without arms of any description,\nignorant of what succor his subtle enemy could command, and charged with\nthe safety of one who was jus...	[ "\n _\"Snug._--Have you the lion's part written?", "Pray you, if it be, give\n it me, for I am slow of study.\"", "_\"Quince_.--You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nThere was a strange blending of the ridiculous with that which was\nsolemn in this sc...	. As they approached the little door of bark, a murmur of voices without announced that the friends and relatives of the invalid were gathered about the place, patiently awaiting a summons to re-enter. "If I open my lips to speak," Hawkeye whispered, "my English, which is the genuine tongue of a white-skin, will tell t...	_"Snug._--Have you the lion's part written? Pray you, if it be, give it me, for I am slow of study." _"Quince_.--You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring." _Midsummer Night's Dream._ There was a strange blending of the ridiculous with that which was solemn in this scene. The beast still continued...	oly sanction of that parent before you urge me further." "Though more I should not, less I could not say," the youth was about to answer, when he was interrupted by a light tap on his shoulder. Starting to his feet, he turned, and, confronting the intruder, his looks fell on the dark form and malignant visage of Magua....
27,681	false	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/26.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_19_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter 26	chapter 26	null	{"name": "Chapter 26", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-26", "summary": "Still dressed as a bear, Hawkeye returns to the camp and approaches a neglected hut in which he sees Gamut. Making sure the place is s...	"_Bot._--Let me play the lion too." _Midsummer Night's Dream._ Notwithstanding the high resolution of Hawkeye, he fully comprehended all the difficulties and dangers he was about to incur. In his return to the camp, his acute and practised intellects were intently engaged in devising means to counteract a watch...	3,742	Chapter 26	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-26	Still dressed as a bear, Hawkeye returns to the camp and approaches a neglected hut in which he sees Gamut. Making sure the place is safe, he enters and seats himself on the other side of the fire, frightening Gamut until he reveals himself. Each one relying on the role he plays, they take a plain and direct route to t...	Another part of the escape technique is now accomplished, and pursuit begins again. Disguise once more serves a useful purpose and, in the scene between Gamut and the bear in the neglected hut, it provides comic relief. Gamut is the butt not only of humor but also of irony when Cooper says that in his fright he "sought...	194	204	[ "\n \"_Bot._--Let me play the lion too.\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nNotwithstanding the high resolution of Hawkeye, he fully comprehended\nall the difficulties and dangers he was about to incur.", "In his return to\nthe camp, his acute and practised intellects were intently engaged in\ndevising means ...	[ "The costume of\nthe votary of music had undergone no other alteration from that so\nlately described, except that he had covered his bald head with the\ntriangular beaver, which had not proved sufficiently alluring to excite\nthe cupidity of any of his captors.", "The position of the latter brought the fire betw...	[ "Whatever might have been the private opinion of Uncas of their\nrespective abilities in this particular, his grave countenance\nmanifested no opinion of his own superiority.", "In other words, while he had implicit\nfaith in the ability of Balsam's ass to speak, he was somewhat skeptical\non the subject of a bea...	[ "But the moment the noise of the serpent was\nheard, he arose, and cast his looks on each side of him, bending his\nhead low, and turning it inquiringly in every direction, until his keen\neye rested on the shaggy monster, where it remained riveted, as though\nfixed by the power of a charm.", "Again the same soun...	[ "\n \"_Bot._--Let me play the lion too.\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nNotwithstanding the high resolution of Hawkeye, he fully comprehended\nall the difficulties and dangers he was about to incur.", "In his return to\nthe camp, his acute and practised intellects were intently engaged in\ndevising means ...	sion as would, probably, in a more refined state of society have been termed "a grand crash." Among his actual auditors, however, it merely gave him an additional claim to that respect which they never withhold from such as are believed to be the subjects of mental alienation. The little knot of Indians drew back in a ...	"_Bot._--Let me play the lion too." _Midsummer Night's Dream._ Notwithstanding the high resolution of Hawkeye, he fully comprehended all the difficulties and dangers he was about to incur. In his return to the camp, his acute and practised intellects were intently engaged in devising means to counteract a watchful...	prolonged the entertainment a little in pique. But the scornful expression of the young man's eye admitted of so many constructions, that the worthy scout was spared the mortification of such a discovery. As soon, therefore, as David gave the pre-concerted signal, a low hissing sound was heard in the lodge, in place o...
27,681	false	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/27.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_20_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter 27	chapter 27	null	{"name": "Chapter 27", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-27", "summary": "Gamut sings loudly and the savages spare him because of his \"infirmity.\" Almost immediately two hundred men are confusedly afoot, bu...	"_Ant._ I shall remember: When Caesar says _Do this_, it is performed." _Julius Caesar._ The impatience of the savages who lingered about the prison of Uncas, as has been seen, had overcome their dread of the conjurer's breath. They stole cautiously, and with beating hearts, to a crevice, through which the fa...	3,524	Chapter 27	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-27	Gamut sings loudly and the savages spare him because of his "infirmity." Almost immediately two hundred men are confusedly afoot, but a consultation is called. The real conjurer and the chief's dead daughter in the cavern are found and Magua is released, revealing to them that La Longue Carabine -- Hawkeye -- has been ...	Other than moving the plot along through revelations that motivate the Hurons and other than the release of Magua which promises more suspense, this chapter's significance lies in the further characterization of Le Renard Subtil. He still has his individual motives for revenge on Munro and Hawkeye, but he is also conce...	190	224	[ "\n \"_Ant._ I shall remember:\n When Caesar says _Do this_, it is performed.\"", "_Julius Caesar._\n\n\nThe impatience of the savages who lingered about the prison of Uncas, as\nhas been seen, had overcome their dread of the conjurer's breath.", "They\nstole cautiously, and with beating hearts, to a crevice,...	[ "\"Let the Delaware die!\"", "\"The Mohican is swift of foot, and leaps far,\" he said; \"but my young\nmen are on his trail.\"", "\"Let us go to my people,\" he said; \"they wait for us.\"", "They were given with additional weight from the circumstance that some\nof the runners had already returned, and repo...	[ "He commenced by flattering the self-love of his auditors; a\nnever-failing method of commanding attention.", "It has been already stated that, in obedience to a policy rarely\ndeparted from, the sisters were separated so soon as they reached the\nHuron village.", "repeated the other, mockingly; \"'tis the spir...	[ "His companions consented in silence, and the whole of the savage party\nleft the cavern and returned to the council-lodge.", "When they were\nseated, all eyes turned on Magua, who understood, from such an\nindication, that, by common consent, they had devolved the duty of\nrelating what had passed on him.", "H...	[ "\n \"_Ant._ I shall remember:\n When Caesar says _Do this_, it is performed.\"", "_Julius Caesar._\n\n\nThe impatience of the savages who lingered about the prison of Uncas, as\nhas been seen, had overcome their dread of the conjurer's breath.", "They\nstole cautiously, and with beating hearts, to a crevice,...	himself engaged, and intimated, though with sufficient delicacy and circumlocution, the expediency of bestowing on their relative a portion of that wisdom for which they were so renowned. [24] During the utterance of this extraordinary address, the companions of the speaker were as grave and as attentive to his langu...	"_Ant._ I shall remember: When Caesar says _Do this_, it is performed." _Julius Caesar._ The impatience of the savages who lingered about the prison of Uncas, as has been seen, had overcome their dread of the conjurer's breath. They stole cautiously, and with beating hearts, to a crevice, through which the faint...	awares. With the advantage of possessing this important intelligence, the chief warily laid his plans before his fellows, and, as might have been anticipated from his eloquence and cunning, they were adopted without a dissenting voice. They were, briefly, as follows, both in opinions and in motives. It has been already...
27,681	true	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/chapters_28_to_29.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_21_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapters 28-29	chapters 28-29	null	{"name": "Chapters 28-29", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2829", "summary": "It is morning in the village of the Delawares, who earlier withheld their assistance from their ally Montcalm. Though everythin...	"Brief, I pray you; for you see, 'tis a busy time with me." _Much Ado About Nothing._ The tribe, or rather half tribe, of Delawares, which has been so often mentioned, and whose present place of encampment was so nigh the temporary village of the Hurons, could assemble about an equal number of warriors with the...	8,097	Chapters 28-29	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2829	It is morning in the village of the Delawares, who earlier withheld their assistance from their ally Montcalm. Though everything is peaceful, the warriors are apparently prepared to fight if necessary, for here and there they carefully examine their arms and eye a silent lodge in the center of the village. When Magua a...	Racial conflict, consciousness of race, and pride in one's color -- all give focus to these two chapters. Conflict is presented early in the discussion of the relationship of the Delawares to the French and to the Six Nations. It is objectified in the verbal fencing between the Huron Magua and the Delaware Hard Heart a...	358	350	[ "\n \"Brief, I pray you; for you see, 'tis a busy time with me.\"", "_Much Ado About Nothing._\n\n\nThe tribe, or rather half tribe, of Delawares, which has been so often\nmentioned, and whose present place of encampment was so nigh the\ntemporary village of the Hurons, could assemble about an equal number of\nw...	[ "The instruments of the chase were to be\nseen in abundance among the lodges; but none departed.", "demanded the orator of the Delawares.", "\"It is well.", "\"Let the Delawares count their prisoners; they will find one\nwhose skin is neither red nor pale.\"", "Not a single indication of the future\nintenti...	[ "The invitation was\naccepted; and the two warriors, attended by three or four of the old\nmen, walked calmly away, leaving the rest of the tribe devoured by a\ndesire to understand the reasons of so unusual a visit, and yet not\nbetraying the least impatience by sign or word.", "It is true, my young men did not ...	[ "I am the man, however, that got the name\nof Nathaniel from my kin; the compliment of Hawkeye from the Delawares,\nwho live on their own river; and whom the Iroquois have presumed to\nstyle the 'Long Rifle,' without any warranty from him who is most\nconcerned in the matter.\"", "The eyes of all present, which h...	[ "\n \"Brief, I pray you; for you see, 'tis a busy time with me.\"", "_Much Ado About Nothing._\n\n\nThe tribe, or rather half tribe, of Delawares, which has been so often\nmentioned, and whose present place of encampment was so nigh the\ntemporary village of the Hurons, could assemble about an equal number of\nw...	awfully audible by the breathless silence of the multitude: "who speaks of things gone! Does not the egg become a worm--the worm a fly, and perish? Why tell the Delawares of good that is past? Better thank the Manitou for that which remains." "It is a Wyandot," said Magua, stepping nigher to the rude platform on which ...	"Brief, I pray you; for you see, 'tis a busy time with me." _Much Ado About Nothing._ The tribe, or rather half tribe, of Delawares, which has been so often mentioned, and whose present place of encampment was so nigh the temporary village of the Hurons, could assemble about an equal number of warriors with the la...	le the heart said nothing." Duncan, a little at a loss in what manner to proceed, remained silent; but the scout, who had listened attentively to all that passed, now advanced steadily to the front. "That I did not answer to the call for La Longue Carabine, was not owing either to shame or fear," he said; "for neither ...
27,681	false	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/30.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_22_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter 30	chapter 30	null	{"name": "Chapter 30", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-30", "summary": "Brought before Tamenund, Uncas is staunch and upright, proud and defiant in the knowledge that he is a chief and also a descendant of ...	"If you deny me, fie upon your law! There is no force in the decrees of Venice: I stand for judgment; answer, shall I have it?" _Merchant of Venice._ The silence continued unbroken by human sounds for many anxious minutes. Then the waving multitude opened and shut again, and Uncas stood in the living circle...	4,060	Chapter 30	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-30	Brought before Tamenund, Uncas is staunch and upright, proud and defiant in the knowledge that he is a chief and also a descendant of the Delawares themselves. When he laconically affirms that Magua is a liar, the patriarch turns him over to the Indians and the enraged Delawares prepare the dreaded trial of torture by ...	While making good dramatic use of Indian pride and customs in this chapter, Cooper also utilizes classic peripety -- a reversal of fortune and circumstance. The occasion allows him once again -- this time through the words of Tamenund -- to touch upon the historic Indian trials and injustices at the hands of the white ...	258	127	[ "\n \"If you deny me, fie upon your law!", "There is no force in the decrees of Venice:\n I stand for judgment; answer, shall I have it?\"", "_Merchant of Venice._\n\n\nThe silence continued unbroken by human sounds for many anxious minutes.", "Then the waving multitude opened and shut again, and Uncas stoo...	[ "There is no force in the decrees of Venice:\n I stand for judgment; answer, shall I have it?\"", "He passed a hand before his eyes, as if to\nexclude the least evidence of so shameful a spectacle, while he\nrepeated, in his low, guttural tones, the words he had just heard.", "I have lived to see the tribes of...	[ "Go, malignant monster--why\ndo you delay?\"", "He would lead you to an\nambushment, and your death--\"\n\n\"Huron,\" interrupted Uncas, who, submissive to the stern customs of his\npeople, had been an attentive and grave listener to all that passed;\n\"Huron, the justice of the Delawares comes from the Manitou."...	[ "\"If a Mingo has whispered that much in the ear of the Delaware, he has\nonly shown that he is a singing-bird,\" said the scout, who now believed\nthat it was time to vindicate himself from such offensive charges, and\nwho spoke in the tongue of the man he addressed, modifying his Indian\nfigures, however, with hi...	[ "\n \"If you deny me, fie upon your law!", "There is no force in the decrees of Venice:\n I stand for judgment; answer, shall I have it?\"", "_Merchant of Venice._\n\n\nThe silence continued unbroken by human sounds for many anxious minutes.", "Then the waving multitude opened and shut again, and Uncas stoo...	and said, in a steady and settled voice,-- "Le Renard Subtil is a great chief; he has but one mind. Come," he added, laying his hand too familiarly on the shoulder of his captive to urge her onward; "a Huron is no tattler; we will go." The maiden drew back in lofty womanly reserve, and her dark eye kindled, while the...	"If you deny me, fie upon your law! There is no force in the decrees of Venice: I stand for judgment; answer, shall I have it?" _Merchant of Venice._ The silence continued unbroken by human sounds for many anxious minutes. Then the waving multitude opened and shut again, and Uncas stood in the living circle. All...	'The Long Rifle.'" "La Longue Carabine!" exclaimed Tamenund, opening his eyes, and regarding the scout sternly. "My son has not done well to call him friend." "I call him so who proves himself such," returned the young chief, with great calmness, but with a steady mien. "If Uncas is welcome among the Delawares, then is...
27,681	false	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/31.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_23_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter 31	chapter 31	null	{"name": "Chapter 31", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-31", "summary": "Uncas watches the form of Cora until it disappears; then followed by a few warriors, he gravely retires to his lodge to meditate his c...	_"Flue._--Kill the poys and the luggage! 'Tis expressly against the law of arms; 'tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be offered in the world." _King Henry V._ So long as their enemy and his victim continued in sight, the multitude remained motionless as beings charmed to the place by some ...	2,985	Chapter 31	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-31	Uncas watches the form of Cora until it disappears; then followed by a few warriors, he gravely retires to his lodge to meditate his course of action. When a dwarf pine is stripped of its bark and painted with red stripes, he emerges and begins a dance and war song to Manitou, the Great Spirit. Others follow suit, and ...	Like the lull before a storm, this chapter continues with Indian customs of preparation during the honorary period of a truce. Also like certain parts in classic ballet or a symphony, the entire movement here is a ritualistic one of slow and relatively quiet potency. There are furthermore a few undertones of the epic, ...	249	161	[ "\n_\"Flue._--Kill the poys and the luggage!", "'Tis expressly against the\n law of arms; 'tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be\n offered in the world.\"", "_King Henry V._\n\n\nSo long as their enemy and his victim continued in sight, the multitude\nremained motionless as beings charmed ...	[ "He was soon followed\nby another, who stripped the sapling of its branches, leaving it a naked\nand blazed[28] trunk.", "Manitou!", "Warrior after warrior enlisted in the\ndance, until all of any renown and authority were numbered in its mazes.", "After this material point was so\nsatisfactorily decided, he ...	[ "None, however, were idle.", "The act announced that\nhe had assumed the chief authority in the intended expedition.", "But Hawkeye was too much accustomed to the war-song and the enlistments\nof the natives, to betray any interest in the passing scene.", "He was, therefore, fain to adopt a caution that in th...	[ "He had actually gained the crags, and was leaping up their\nsides with incredible activity, when a shot from the woods showed how\naccurate had been the judgment of the scout.", "The boy answered it with a\nfeeble but contemptuous shout; and immediately a second bullet was sent\nafter him from another part of th...	[ "\n_\"Flue._--Kill the poys and the luggage!", "'Tis expressly against the\n law of arms; 'tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be\n offered in the world.\"", "_King Henry V._\n\n\nSo long as their enemy and his victim continued in sight, the multitude\nremained motionless as beings charmed ...	ic war-whoop, which burst from the lips of the young warrior, like a combination of all the frightful sounds of battle. The last was like the first, humble and imploring. Three times did he repeat this song, and as often did he encircle the post in his dance. At the close of the first turn, a grave and highly esteemed ...	_"Flue._--Kill the poys and the luggage! 'Tis expressly against the law of arms; 'tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be offered in the world." _King Henry V._ So long as their enemy and his victim continued in sight, the multitude remained motionless as beings charmed to the place by some pow...	hat of a serpent, towards the desired treasure. He was successful; and in another moment he appeared flying across the narrow opening that skirted the base of the terrace on which the village stood, with the velocity of an arrow, and bearing a prize in each hand. He had actually gained the crags, and was leaping up the...
27,681	false	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/32.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_24_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter 32	chapter 32	null	{"name": "Chapter 32", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-32", "summary": "The forest scene is appealingly peaceful and quiet as Hawkeye leads his men towards the rear, where they halt at a brook and learn tha...	"But plagues shall spread, and funeral fires increase, Till the great king, without a ransom paid, To her own Chrysa send the black-eyed maid." POPE. During the time Uncas was making this disposition of his forces, the woods were still, and, with the exception of those who had met in council, apparently as ...	5,368	Chapter 32	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-32	The forest scene is appealingly peaceful and quiet as Hawkeye leads his men towards the rear, where they halt at a brook and learn that they have been followed by the singing master. Having been reminded of a Biblical battle, Gamut is determined to join forces with the warriors in behalf of Cora. Hawkeye is doubtful ev...	The present action is the climax of the novel. The opposing forces are brought into tragic confrontation, and the final pursuit is ended. Once again, at the beginning of the chapter, Cooper sets up the quiet calm of nature to contrast with the bloody events that follow. By and large, though, Cooper devotes his skill to...	473	434	[ "\n \"But plagues shall spread, and funeral fires increase,\n Till the great king, without a ransom paid,\n To her own Chrysa send the black-eyed maid.\"", "POPE.", "During the time Uncas was making this disposition of his forces, the\nwoods were still, and, with the exception of those who had met in\ncounci...	[ "said Hawkeye, considering the deer-skin thong and apron, with a\ncold and discouraging eye; \"the thing might do its work among arrows, or\neven knives; but these Mengwe have been furnished by the Frenchers with\na good grooved barrel a man.", "Pointing in\nthe direction he wished to proceed, Hawkeye advanced, t...	[ "\"Ay, there is white reason in what you say; but a man must ask himself,\nin this wilderness, how many lives he can spare.", "A single bound would\ncarry him to the brow of the precipice, and assure his safety.", "One little knot of Hurons, however, had disdained to seek a\ncover, and were retiring, like lions...	[ "The land fell away rather\nprecipitately in front, and beneath their eyes stretched, for several\nmiles, a narrow, dark, and wooded vale.", "It was through this dense and\ndark forest that Uncas was still contending with the main body of the\nHurons.", "The Mohican and his friends advanced to the brow of the h...	[ "\n \"But plagues shall spread, and funeral fires increase,\n Till the great king, without a ransom paid,\n To her own Chrysa send the black-eyed maid.\"", "POPE.", "During the time Uncas was making this disposition of his forces, the\nwoods were still, and, with the exception of those who had met in\ncounci...	undred warriors. Waving his hands right and left, the young chief pointed out the enemy to his followers, who separated in pursuit. The war now divided, both wings of the broken Hurons seeking protection in the woods again, hotly pressed by the victorious warriors of the Lenape. A minute might have passed, but the soun...	"But plagues shall spread, and funeral fires increase, Till the great king, without a ransom paid, To her own Chrysa send the black-eyed maid." POPE. During the time Uncas was making this disposition of his forces, the woods were still, and, with the exception of those who had met in council, apparently as much ...	them now in face and back!" The effect on the Hurons was instantaneous. Discouraged by an assault from a quarter that left them no opportunity for cover, their warriors uttered a common yell of disappointment, and breaking off in a body, they spread themselves across the opening, heedless of every consideration but fl...
27,681	false	cliffnotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/33.txt	finished_summaries/cliffnotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_25_part_0.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter 33	chapter 33	null	{"name": "Chapter 33", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-33", "summary": "The next morning finds the Lenape a nation of mourners in spite of their destruction of a whole community of enemies. Their own loss h...	"They fought, like brave men, long and well, They piled that ground with Moslem slain, They conquered--but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won; Then saw in death his eyelids close Calmly, as to a...	6,650	Chapter 33	https://web.archive.org/web/20201101053205/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary-and-analysis/chapter-33	The next morning finds the Lenape a nation of mourners in spite of their destruction of a whole community of enemies. Their own loss has brought sadness and humility, and everybody is outdoors in a silent circle about their dead. Munro sits desolate at the foot of the litter holding Cora's body, while nearby Chingachgo...	The conclusion of the tragic story is befittingly somber and ritualistic, somehow bringing things together. For instance, Gamut, who has survived his initiation into the frontier, comes so under the spell of the ritual Indian singing that he submits to it and later adds his voice to the ceremony. The man who started ou...	375	459	[ "\n \"They fought, like brave men, long and well,\n They piled that ground with Moslem slain,\n They conquered--but Bozzaris fell,\n Bleeding at every vein.", "His few surviving comrades saw\n His smile when rang their proud hurrah,\n And the red field was won;\n Then saw in death his eyelids close\n...	[ "Just within the inner edge of the circle stood a soldier, in the\nmilitary attire of a strange nation; and without it was his war-horse,\nin the centre of a collection of mounted domestics, seemingly in\nreadiness to undertake some distant journey.", "The patience and forbearance of Indian\nfortitude could alone...	[ "The movement, like the feeling, had been simultaneous and general.", "By corn is meant maize.", "Thus, in a new country,\nthe woods and other objects, which in an old country would be maintained\nat great cost, are got rid of, simply with a view of \"improving,\" as it\nis called.", "They promised that her p...	[ "Cora, my child!", "if the prayers of a heartbroken father could avail thee\nnow, how blessed shouldst thou be!", "Come, gentlemen,\" he added, looking\nabout him with an air of lofty composure, though the anguish that\nquivered in his faded countenance was far too powerful to be concealed,\n\"our duty here is ...	[ "\n \"They fought, like brave men, long and well,\n They piled that ground with Moslem slain,\n They conquered--but Bozzaris fell,\n Bleeding at every vein.", "His few surviving comrades saw\n His smile when rang their proud hurrah,\n And the red field was won;\n Then saw in death his eyelids close\n...	t and wailing. The words were connected by no regular continuation, but as one ceased another took up the eulogy, or lamentation, whichever it might be called, and gave vent to her emotions in such language as was suggested by her feelings and the occasion. At intervals the speaker was interrupted by general and loud b...	"They fought, like brave men, long and well, They piled that ground with Moslem slain, They conquered--but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won; Then saw in death his eyelids close Calmly, as to a n...	ed song, "that one who better knows the Christian fashions is about to speak." The females stood modestly aside, and, from having been the principal actors in the scene, they now became the meek and attentive observers of that which followed. During the time David was occupied in pouring out the pious feelings of his s...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/01.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_0_part_1.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter i	chapter i	null	{"name": "Chapter I", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section1/", "summary": "The novel takes place during the third year of the French and Indian War. The narrator explains that the land itself, populated by hostile Indian tribes, is as dangerous as the war. T...	"Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared: The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold: Say, is my kingdom lost?" SHAKESPEARE. It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and a...	3,525	Chapter I	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section1/	The novel takes place during the third year of the French and Indian War. The narrator explains that the land itself, populated by hostile Indian tribes, is as dangerous as the war. The armies do not want to battle, and the unpredictability of the terrain unnerves them. The French general Montcalm has allied himself wi...	The opening two chapters of The Last of the Mohicans establish war, both historical and imagined, as the novel's foundation. Cooper uses historical facts, rooting his narrative in actual, lived events in the colonial history of the United States. However, he also roots his narrative in his own imagined war. Cooper want...	172	561	[ "\n \"Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared:\n The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold:\n Say, is my kingdom lost?\"", "SHAKESPEARE.", "It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that\nthe toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before\nthe adverse hosts could m...	[ "Near its southern termination,\nit received the contributions of another lake, whose waters were so\nlimpid as to have been exclusively selected by the Jesuit missionaries\nto perform the typical purification of baptism, and to obtain for it the\ntitle of lake \"du Saint Sacrement.\"", "While the husbandman shra...	[ "Erect, his stature\nsurpassed that of his fellows; seated, he appeared reduced within the\nordinary limits of the race.", "Though the arts of peace were\nunknown to this fatal region, its forests were alive with men; its\nshades and glens rang with the sounds of martial music, and the echoes\nof its mountains th...	[ "The novice in the military art flew from\npoint to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his\nviolent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practised veteran\nmade his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance\nof haste; though his sober lineaments and anxious eye suff...	[ "\n \"Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared:\n The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold:\n Say, is my kingdom lost?\"", "SHAKESPEARE.", "It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that\nthe toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before\nthe adverse hosts could m...	re lost by the travelling dress she wore, was rather fuller and more mature than that of her companion. No sooner were these females seated, than their attendant sprang lightly into the saddle of the war-horse, when the whole three bowed to Webb, who, in courtesy, awaited their parting on the threshold of his cabin, an...	"Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared: The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold: Say, is my kingdom lost?" SHAKESPEARE. It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and appare...	the orders of the preceding night, the heavy sleep of the army was broken by the rolling of the warning drums, whose rattling echoes were heard issuing, on the damp morning air, out of every vista of the woods, just as day began to draw the shaggy outlines of some tall pines of the vicinity, on the opening brightness ...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/02.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_0_part_2.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter ii	chapter ii	null	{"name": "Chapter II", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section1/", "summary": "The Indian runner, whose name is Magua, agrees to guide Heyward and the young women to Fort William Henry by means of a shortcut known only to the Indians. Soon after they leave Fort...	"Sola, sola, wo, ha, ho, sola!" SHAKESPEARE. While one of the lovely beings we have so cursorily presented to the reader was thus lost in thought, the other quickly recovered from the alarm which induced the exclamation, and, laughing at her own weakness, she inquired of the youth who rode by her side,-- "Are ...	2,947	Chapter II	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section1/	The Indian runner, whose name is Magua, agrees to guide Heyward and the young women to Fort William Henry by means of a shortcut known only to the Indians. Soon after they leave Fort Edward, they meet a stranger. We later learn his name is David Gamut. Gamut is a psalmodist, a man who worships by singing Old Testament ...	The opening two chapters of The Last of the Mohicans establish war, both historical and imagined, as the novel's foundation. Cooper uses historical facts, rooting his narrative in actual, lived events in the colonial history of the United States. However, he also roots his narrative in his own imagined war. Cooper want...	247	561	[ "\n \"Sola, sola, wo, ha, ho, sola!\"", "SHAKESPEARE.", "While one of the lovely beings we have so cursorily presented to the\nreader was thus lost in thought, the other quickly recovered from the\nalarm which induced the exclamation, and, laughing at her own weakness,\nshe inquired of the youth who rode by he...	[ "SHAKESPEARE.", "\"I like him not,\" said the lady, shuddering, partly in assumed, yet more\nin real terror.", "[3] He was\nbrought among us, as I have heard, by some strange accident in which\nyour father was interested, and in which the savage was rigidly dealt\nby--but I forget the idle tale; it is enough, t...	[ "\"Cora, what think you?\"", "\"Partial relatives have almost persuaded me that I am not\nentirely worthless in a duet myself; and we may enliven our wayfaring by\nindulging in our favorite pursuit.", "'Tis the six-and-twentieth edition,\npromulgated at Boston, Anno Domini 1744; and is entitled, _The Psalms,\nH...	[ "demanded Heyward, when the other had arrived\nsufficiently nigh to abate his speed; \"I trust you are no messenger of\nevil tidings?\"", "\"Even so,\" replied the stranger, making diligent use of his triangular\ncastor, to produce a circulation in the close air of the woods, and\nleaving his hearers in doubt to ...	[ "\n \"Sola, sola, wo, ha, ho, sola!\"", "SHAKESPEARE.", "While one of the lovely beings we have so cursorily presented to the\nreader was thus lost in thought, the other quickly recovered from the\nalarm which induced the exclamation, and, laughing at her own weakness,\nshe inquired of the youth who rode by he...	r though certainly not more beautiful companion to proceed unattended, while he sedulously opened the way himself for the passage of her who has been called Cora. It would seem that the domestics had been previously instructed; for, instead of penetrating the thicket, they followed the route of the column; a measure wh...	"Sola, sola, wo, ha, ho, sola!" SHAKESPEARE. While one of the lovely beings we have so cursorily presented to the reader was thus lost in thought, the other quickly recovered from the alarm which induced the exclamation, and, laughing at her own weakness, she inquired of the youth who rode by her side,-- "Are such ...	urney; and if dumb there would be an end to my calling." After simpering in a small way, like one whose modesty prohibited a more open expression of his admiration of a witticism that was perfectly unintelligible to his hearers, he continued: "It is not prudent for any one of my profession to be too familiar with those...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/03.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_1_part_1.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter iii	chapter iii	null	{"name": "Chapter III", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section2/", "summary": "The narrator shifts the focus of attention from Magua and his party to another group of people in another part of the forest, a few miles west by the river. We meet the remaining pr...	"Before these fields were shorn and tilled, Full to the brim our rivers flowed; The melody of waters filled The fresh and boundless wood; And torrents dashed, and rivulets played, And fountains spouted in the shade." BRYANT. Leaving the unsuspecting Heyward and his confiding companions to penetr...	3,132	Chapter III	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section2/	The narrator shifts the focus of attention from Magua and his party to another group of people in another part of the forest, a few miles west by the river. We meet the remaining primary characters: Hawkeye, a white hunter, and Chingachgook, his Mohican ally. Though both men are hunters, they dress differently. Hawkeye...	Whereas Cooper uses epigraphs from Shakespearean plays to frame his first two chapters, he uses an American epigraph to begin Chapter III, quoting from William Cullen Bryant's poem "An Indian at the Burial-Place of His Fathers." Cooper uses Shakespearean quotations to justify The Last of the Mohicans as a literary proj...	226	452	[ "\n \"Before these fields were shorn and tilled,\n Full to the brim our rivers flowed;\n The melody of waters filled\n The fresh and boundless wood;\n And torrents dashed, and rivulets played,\n And fountains spouted in the shade.\"", "BRYANT.", "Leaving the unsuspecting Heyward and his confiding co...	[ "\n \"Before these fields were shorn and tilled,\n Full to the brim our rivers flowed;\n The melody of waters filled\n The fresh and boundless wood;\n And torrents dashed, and rivulets played,\n And fountains spouted in the shade.\"", "His person, though muscular, was\nrather attenuated than full; but...	[ "He hesitated a single\ninstant, and bending a cautious glance toward his companion, he\ncontinued, in a manner that was divided between interrogation and\nassertion, \"Does not this stream at our feet run towards the summer,\nuntil its waters grow salt, and the current flows upward?\"", "BRYANT.", "\"Is there ...	[ "The land we had taken\nlike warriors, we kept like men.", "We drove the Maquas into the woods with\nthe bears.", "They only tasted salt at the licks; they drew no fish from\nthe great lake; we threw them the bones.\"", "\"All this I have heard and believe,\" said the white man, observing that\nthe Indian pau...	[ "\n \"Before these fields were shorn and tilled,\n Full to the brim our rivers flowed;\n The melody of waters filled\n The fresh and boundless wood;\n And torrents dashed, and rivulets played,\n And fountains spouted in the shade.\"", "BRYANT.", "Leaving the unsuspecting Heyward and his confiding co...	des, and which were gartered above the knees with the sinews of a deer. A pouch and horn completed his personal accoutrements, though a rifle of great length[7], which the theory of the more ingenious whites had taught them was the most dangerous of all fire-arms, leaned against a neighboring sapling. The eye of the hu...	"Before these fields were shorn and tilled, Full to the brim our rivers flowed; The melody of waters filled The fresh and boundless wood; And torrents dashed, and rivulets played, And fountains spouted in the shade." BRYANT. Leaving the unsuspecting Heyward and his confiding companions to penetrate s...	ey run out, and the reason is this: when there is higher water in the sea than in the river, they run in, until the river gets to be highest, and then it runs out again." "The waters in the woods, and on the great lakes, run downward until they lie like my hand," said the Indian, stretching the limb horizontally before...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/04.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_1_part_2.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter iv	chapter iv	null	{"name": "Chapter IV", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section2/", "summary": "Chapter IV he worst enemy I have on earth, and he is an Iroquois, daren't deny that I am genuine white. Heyward and his party encounter Hawkeye. When Hawkeye questions the group, Hey...	"Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury." _Midsummer Night's Dream._ The words were still in the mouth of the scout, when the leader of the party, whose approaching footsteps had caught the vigilant ear of the Indian, came openly into view. A beaten path, such as ...	3,075	Chapter IV	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section2/	Chapter IV he worst enemy I have on earth, and he is an Iroquois, daren't deny that I am genuine white. Heyward and his party encounter Hawkeye. When Hawkeye questions the group, Heyward and Gamut explain that their guide, Magua, has led them away from their desired destination. Hawkeye finds this explanation suspiciou...	Whereas Cooper uses epigraphs from Shakespearean plays to frame his first two chapters, he uses an American epigraph to begin Chapter III, quoting from William Cullen Bryant's poem "An Indian at the Burial-Place of His Fathers." Cooper uses Shakespearean quotations to justify The Last of the Mohicans as a literary proj...	273	452	[ "\n \"Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove\n Till I torment thee for this injury.\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nThe words were still in the mouth of the scout, when the leader of the\nparty, whose approaching footsteps had caught the vigilant ear of the\nIndian, came openly into view.", "A ...	[ "\"Enough of this,\" said Heyward, impatiently; \"I wish not to inquire into\nthe character of a man that I know, and to whom you must be a stranger.", "you can tell me little of the Royal Americans that I don't\nknow, though I do wear a hunting-shirt instead of a scarlet jacket.\"", "\"A Mingo is a Mingo, and ...	[ "'Tis strange that an Indian should be lost atwixt Horican\nand the bend in the river.", "\"Hold!\"", "You forget that I have told you our guide is now a Mohawk,\nand that he serves with our forces as a friend.\"", "Though, if I\nfelt confident of his treachery--\"\n\n\"'Tis a safe thing to calculate on the k...	[ "\"And why?", "they are fatigued, but they are quite equal to a ride of a few\nmore miles.\"", "\"'Tis a natural impossibility!\"", "repeated the scout; \"I wouldn't walk a\nmile in these woods after night gets into them, in company with that\nrunner, for the best rifle in the colonies.", "They are full of ...	[ "\n \"Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove\n Till I torment thee for this injury.\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nThe words were still in the mouth of the scout, when the leader of the\nparty, whose approaching footsteps had caught the vigilant ear of the\nIndian, came openly into view.", "A ...	Is he a Mohawk?" "Not by birth, though adopted in that tribe; I think his birthplace was farther north, and he is one of those you call a Huron." "Hugh!" exclaimed the two companions of the scout, who had continued, until this part of the dialogue, seated immovable, and apparently indifferent to what passed, but who n...	"Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury." _Midsummer Night's Dream._ The words were still in the mouth of the scout, when the leader of the party, whose approaching footsteps had caught the vigilant ear of the Indian, came openly into view. A beaten path, such as tho...	such ladies in your company 'tis impossible!" "And why? they are fatigued, but they are quite equal to a ride of a few more miles." "'Tis a natural impossibility!" repeated the scout; "I wouldn't walk a mile in these woods after night gets into them, in company with that runner, for the best rifle in the colonies. They...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/05.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_2_part_1.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter v	chapter v	null	{"name": "Chapter V", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section3/", "summary": "Magua escapes from Heyward and Hawkeye, but Hawkeye finds blood on a sumac leaf and realizes that his rifle shot has wounded the fleeing Indian. Heyward wants to chase Magua, but Hawk...	"In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew; And saw the lion's shadow ere himself." _Merchant of Venice._ The suddenness of the flight of his guide, and the wild cries of the pursuers, caused Heyward to remain fixed, for a few moments, in inactive surprise. Then recollecting ...	3,268	Chapter V	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section3/	Magua escapes from Heyward and Hawkeye, but Hawkeye finds blood on a sumac leaf and realizes that his rifle shot has wounded the fleeing Indian. Heyward wants to chase Magua, but Hawkeye resists, upset that he has fired his rifle and perhaps incited the unseen enemy. Moreover, the others are anxious to reach a safe pla...	The Last of the Mohicans was one of the first novels to portray both the romance and the adventure of frontier life. These novels, eventually called frontier romances, became very popular in the nineteenth century. The Last of the Mohicans can be classified as a sentimental novel because it explores the themes of doome...	208	437	[ "\n \"In such a night\n Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew;\n And saw the lion's shadow ere himself.\"", "_Merchant of Venice._\n\n\nThe suddenness of the flight of his guide, and the wild cries of the\npursuers, caused Heyward to remain fixed, for a few moments, in inactive\nsurprise.",...	[ "he is hurt, and may yet fall!\"", "A rifle-bullet acts on a running animal, when it barks\nhim, much the same as one of your spurs on a horse; that is, it quickens\nmotion, and puts life into the flesh, instead of taking it away.", "But\nwhen it cuts the ragged hole, after a bound or two, there is, commonly,\n...	[ "\"You are at the foot of Glenn's,\" returned the other, speaking aloud,\nwithout fear of consequences, within the roar of the cataract; \"and the\nnext thing is to make a steady landing, lest the canoe upset, and you\nshould go down again the hard road we have travelled, faster than you\ncame up; 'tis a hard rift ...	[ "Draw to your arrow's head, Uncas; we have no time for second blows.\"", "The low, muttering sounds of his threatening voice were still audible,\nwhen the wounded foal, first rearing on its hinder legs, plunged forward\nto its knees.", "It was met by Chingachgook, whose knife passed across its\nthroat quicker t...	[ "\n \"In such a night\n Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew;\n And saw the lion's shadow ere himself.\"", "_Merchant of Venice._\n\n\nThe suddenness of the flight of his guide, and the wild cries of the\npursuers, caused Heyward to remain fixed, for a few moments, in inactive\nsurprise.",...	, which glided past the spot where he stood, was to be traced only by the dark boundary of its wooded banks. "What is to be done?" he said, feeling the utter helplessness of doubt in such a pressing strait; "desert me not, for God's sake! remain to defend those I escort, and freely name your own reward!" His companions...	"In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew; And saw the lion's shadow ere himself." _Merchant of Venice._ The suddenness of the flight of his guide, and the wild cries of the pursuers, caused Heyward to remain fixed, for a few moments, in inactive surprise. Then recollecting the...	oon concealed by the projection of the bank, under the brow of which they moved, in a direction opposite to the course of the waters. In the meantime, the scout drew a canoe of bark from its place of concealment beneath some low bushes, whose branches were waving with the eddies of the current, into which he silently m...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/06.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_2_part_2.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter vi	chapter vi	null	{"name": "Chapter VI", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section3/", "summary": "Those left behind soon see that the Mohicans have entered their secret hideout, a cavern in the falls concealed by a blanket. Hawkeye lights a pine bough, and the light reveals the h...	"Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide; He wales a portion with judicious care; And 'Let us worship God,' he says, with solemn air." BURNS. Heyward, and his female companions, witnessed this mysterious movement with secret uneasiness; for, though the conduct of the white man had hitherto been abov...	3,873	Chapter VI	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section3/	Those left behind soon see that the Mohicans have entered their secret hideout, a cavern in the falls concealed by a blanket. Hawkeye lights a pine bough, and the light reveals the hideout to be an island of rock amid the streaming falls. The group eats a meal of venison. Uncas serves the two Munro sisters, showing mor...	The Last of the Mohicans was one of the first novels to portray both the romance and the adventure of frontier life. These novels, eventually called frontier romances, became very popular in the nineteenth century. The Last of the Mohicans can be classified as a sentimental novel because it explores the themes of doome...	183	437	[ "\n \"Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide;\n He wales a portion with judicious care;\n And 'Let us worship God,' he says, with solemn air.\"", "BURNS.", "Heyward, and his female companions, witnessed this mysterious movement\nwith secret uneasiness; for, though the conduct of the white man had\nh...	[ "\"I agree with you, Alice, in thinking that such a front and\neye were formed rather to intimidate than to deceive; but let us not\npractise a deception upon ourselves, by expecting any other exhibition\nof what we esteem virtue than according to the fashion of a savage.", "\"Now Major Heyward speaks as Major He...	[ "The young hounds go laughing and singing\ntoo much already through the woods, when they ought not to breathe\nlouder than a fox in his cover.", "\"With joyful pleasure do I consent,\" said David, adjusting his\niron-rimmed spectacles, and producing his beloved little volume, which\nhe immediately tendered to Ali...	[ "How do you name\nyourself?\"", "\"Gamut--David Gamut,\" returned the singing-master, preparing to wash\ndown his sorrows in a powerful draught of the woodman's high-flavored\nand well-laced compound.", "\"A very good name, and, I dare say, handed down from honest\nforefathers.", "I'm an admirator of names, t...	[ "\n \"Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide;\n He wales a portion with judicious care;\n And 'Let us worship God,' he says, with solemn air.\"", "BURNS.", "Heyward, and his female companions, witnessed this mysterious movement\nwith secret uneasiness; for, though the conduct of the white man had\nh...	mine into the security of your fortress," he answered, "and then we will speak of rest." He approached the farther end of the cavern, to an outlet, which, like the others, was concealed by blankets, and removing the thick screen, breathed the fresh and reviving air from the cataract. One arm of the river flowed through...	"Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide; He wales a portion with judicious care; And 'Let us worship God,' he says, with solemn air." BURNS. Heyward, and his female companions, witnessed this mysterious movement with secret uneasiness; for, though the conduct of the white man had hitherto been above rep...	strong resemblance between father and son, with the difference that might be expected from age and hardships. The fierceness of his countenance now seemed to slumber, and in its place was to be seen the quiet, vacant composure, which distinguishes an Indian warrior, when his faculties are not required for any of the gr...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/07.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_3_part_1.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter vii	chapter vii	null	{"name": "Chapter VII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section4/", "summary": "Hawkeye believes the group has heard cries of warning, and the party hurries out of the cave. As Heyward describes the loveliness of the natural landscape, another shrieking cry pie...	"They do not sleep. On yonder cliffs, a grisly band, I see them sit." GRAY. "'Twould be neglecting a warning that is given for our good, to lie hid any longer," said Hawkeye, "when such sounds are raised in the forest! The gentle ones may keep close, but the Mohicans and I will watch upon th...	4,170	Chapter VII	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section4/	Hawkeye believes the group has heard cries of warning, and the party hurries out of the cave. As Heyward describes the loveliness of the natural landscape, another shrieking cry pierces the calm. Heyward then realizes that the cry is the sound of a horse screaming in fear, perhaps because wolves have approached it. The...	Cooper is not interested in producing simple oppositions between Indians and whites, or in drawing stereotypes. Although he classifies people by race, he also classifies them by those who respect the land and those who believe they can dominate the land. Hawkeye is a hybrid white figure who has an Indian's sympathy for...	106	436	[ "\n \"They do not sleep.", "On yonder cliffs, a grisly band,\n I see them sit.\"", "GRAY.", "\"'Twould be neglecting a warning that is given for our good, to lie hid\nany longer,\" said Hawkeye, \"when such sounds are raised in the forest!", "The gentle ones may keep close, but the Mohican...	[ "If 'twere only a\nbattle, it would be a thing understood by us all, and easily managed;\nbut I have heard that when such shrieks are atween heaven and 'arth, it\nbetokens another sort of warfare!\"", "On issuing from their place of confinement, the whole party instantly\nexperienced a grateful renovation of spir...	[ "asked Cora.", "Alice!", "said Heyward, taking his pistols from the place\nwhere he had laid them on entering; \"be it a sign of peace or a signal\nof war, it must be looked to.", "He crawled along\nthe rock, and shook Duncan from his heavy slumbers.", "The river glanced by with its ordinary velocity, but t...	[ "\"The poor fellow has saved his scalp,\" said Hawkeye, coolly passing his\nhand over the head of David; \"but he is a proof that a man may be born\nwith too long a tongue!", "'Twas downright madness to show six feet of\nflesh and blood, on a naked rock, to the raging savages.", "I only wonder\nhe has escaped w...	[ "\n \"They do not sleep.", "On yonder cliffs, a grisly band,\n I see them sit.\"", "GRAY.", "\"'Twould be neglecting a warning that is given for our good, to lie hid\nany longer,\" said Hawkeye, \"when such sounds are raised in the forest!", "The gentle ones may keep close, but the Mohican...	t little insight into their trade, when they make their fowling-pieces and short horsemen's--" He was interrupted by the low but expressive "Hugh!" of Uncas. [Illustration: _Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons_ THE BATTLE AT GLENS FALLS _Each of the combatants threw all his energies into that effort, and the result...	"They do not sleep. On yonder cliffs, a grisly band, I see them sit." GRAY. "'Twould be neglecting a warning that is given for our good, to lie hid any longer," said Hawkeye, "when such sounds are raised in the forest! The gentle ones may keep close, but the Mohicans and I will watch upon the rock,...	n tumult. Duncan seized the favorable moment to spring to the body of Gamut, which he bore within the shelter of the narrow chasm that protected the sisters. In another minute the whole party was collected in this spot of comparative safety. "The poor fellow has saved his scalp," said Hawkeye, coolly passing his hand o...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/08.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_3_part_2.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter viii	chapter viii	null	{"name": "Chapter VIII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section4/", "summary": "Just before dawn, the Iroquois attack with rifles and wound Gamut. Chingachgook returns fire. Heyward takes Cora, Alice, and Gamut to the protection of the outer cave. Hawkeye figh...	"They linger yet, Avengers of their native land." GRAY. The warning call of the scout was not uttered without occasion. During the occurrence of the deadly encounter just related, the roar of the falls was unbroken by any human sound whatever. It would seem that interest in the result had kept the natives...	3,579	Chapter VIII	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section4/	Just before dawn, the Iroquois attack with rifles and wound Gamut. Chingachgook returns fire. Heyward takes Cora, Alice, and Gamut to the protection of the outer cave. Hawkeye fights valiantly throughout the day. He believes their only hope is to defend the rock until Munro sends reinforcements. Dawn approaches, and a ...	Cooper is not interested in producing simple oppositions between Indians and whites, or in drawing stereotypes. Although he classifies people by race, he also classifies them by those who respect the land and those who believe they can dominate the land. Hawkeye is a hybrid white figure who has an Indian's sympathy for...	249	436	[ "\n \"They linger yet,\n Avengers of their native land.\"", "GRAY.", "The warning call of the scout was not uttered without occasion.", "During\nthe occurrence of the deadly encounter just related, the roar of the\nfalls was unbroken by any human sound whatever.", "It would seem that\ninterest in the ...	[ "During this act of friendship, the two young men exchanged\nlooks of intelligence which caused Duncan to forget the character and\ncondition of his wild associate.", "\"Uncas, call up your father; we have need of all our\nwe'pons to bring the cunning varmint from his roost.\"", "From that moment the yells in t...	[ "A quiet smile lighted the haughty features of the young Mohican,\nbetraying his knowledge of the English language, as well as of the\nother's meaning; but he suffered it to pass away without vindication or\nreply.", "\"Ay, ay,\" muttered the scout, who had listened to this peculiar burst of\nthe natives with dee...	[ "The adventurous Huron raised his head above the shelter of the canoe,\nand while it glided swiftly down the stream, he waved his hand, and gave\nforth the shout, which was the known signal of success.", "His cry was\nanswered by a yell and a laugh from the woods, as tauntingly exulting as\nif fifty demons were u...	[ "\n \"They linger yet,\n Avengers of their native land.\"", "GRAY.", "The warning call of the scout was not uttered without occasion.", "During\nthe occurrence of the deadly encounter just related, the roar of the\nfalls was unbroken by any human sound whatever.", "It would seem that\ninterest in the ...	o would exact from her protector?" said the young man, smiling mournfully, but with bitterness. "This is not a time for idle subtleties and false opinions," she answered; "but a moment when every duty should be equally considered. To us you can be of no further service here, but your precious life may be saved for othe...	"They linger yet, Avengers of their native land." GRAY. The warning call of the scout was not uttered without occasion. During the occurrence of the deadly encounter just related, the roar of the falls was unbroken by any human sound whatever. It would seem that interest in the result had kept the natives on t...	had disturbed even the practised stoicism of their youthful Indian protector. At a short distance from the rock, their little bark was to be seen floating across the eddy, towards the swift current of the river, in a manner which proved that its course was directed by some hidden agent. The instant this unwelcome sigh...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/09.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_3_part_3.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter ix	chapter ix	null	{"name": "Chapter IX", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section4/", "summary": "Heyward, Cora, Alice, and the wounded Gamut huddle together in the deepest part of the cave, awaiting their capture. Outside, Indian voices shout, \"La Longue Carabine. a name Heywar...	"Be gay securely; Dispel, my fair, with smiles, the tim'rous clouds, That hang on thy clear brow." _Death of Agrippina._ The sudden and almost magical change, from the stirring incidents of the combat to the stillness that now reigned around him, acted on the heated imagination of ...	3,114	Chapter IX	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section4/	Heyward, Cora, Alice, and the wounded Gamut huddle together in the deepest part of the cave, awaiting their capture. Outside, Indian voices shout, "La Longue Carabine. a name Heyward recognizes. He realizes that Hawkeye is the famous hunter and scout called La Longue Carabine, celebrated throughout the English army. Th...	Cooper is not interested in producing simple oppositions between Indians and whites, or in drawing stereotypes. Although he classifies people by race, he also classifies them by those who respect the land and those who believe they can dominate the land. Hawkeye is a hybrid white figure who has an Indian's sympathy for...	126	436	[ "\n \"Be gay securely;\n Dispel, my fair, with smiles, the tim'rous clouds,\n That hang on thy clear brow.\"", "_Death of Agrippina._\n\n\nThe sudden and almost magical change, from the stirring incidents of the\ncombat to the stillness that now reigned around him, acted on the heated...	[ "_Death of Agrippina._\n\n\nThe sudden and almost magical change, from the stirring incidents of the\ncombat to the stillness that now reigned around him, acted on the heated\nimagination of Heyward like some exciting dream.", "A fish-hawk,\nwhich, secure on the topmost branches of a dead pine, had been a distant...	[ "if our place of retreat escape this scrutiny, we are still\nsafe!", "Every effort, however, to detect\nthe least evidence of the approach of their hidden enemies, was as\nfruitless as the inquiry after his late companions.", "Heyward abandoned every hope,\nwith the belief it was the signal that they were disco...	[ "Exerting his renovated\npowers to their utmost, he was yet filling the arches of the cave with\nlong and full tones, when a yell burst into the air without, that\ninstantly stilled his pious strains, choking his voice suddenly, as\nthough his heart had literally bounded into the passage of his throat.", "\"We ar...	[ "\n \"Be gay securely;\n Dispel, my fair, with smiles, the tim'rous clouds,\n That hang on thy clear brow.\"", "_Death of Agrippina._\n\n\nThe sudden and almost magical change, from the stirring incidents of the\ncombat to the stillness that now reigned around him, acted on the heated...	wearied senses; and, leaning on the arm of his companion, he entered the narrow mouth of the cave. Duncan seized a pile of the sassafras, which he drew before the passage, studiously concealing every appearance of an aperture. Within this fragile barrier he arranged the blankets abandoned by the foresters, darkening t...	"Be gay securely; Dispel, my fair, with smiles, the tim'rous clouds, That hang on thy clear brow." _Death of Agrippina._ The sudden and almost magical change, from the stirring incidents of the combat to the stillness that now reigned around him, acted on the heated imagination of Hey...	et," returned the agitated but undaunted Heyward; "the sound came from the centre of the island, and it has been produced by the sight of their dead companions. We are not yet discovered, and there is still hope." Faint and almost despairing as was the prospect of escape, the words of Duncan were not thrown away, for i...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/10.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_3_part_4.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter x	chapter x	null	{"name": "Chapter X", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section4/", "summary": "Though the Hurons at first threaten to kill Heyward, they detain him for questioning. Heyward relies upon Magua for interpretation and finally convinces his captors that Hawkeye and h...	"I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn As much as we this night have overwatched!" _Midsummer Night's Dream._ The instant the shock of this sudden misfortune had abated, Duncan began to make his observations on the appearance and proceedings of their captors. Contrary to the usages of the natives in the wa...	4,084	Chapter X	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section4/	Though the Hurons at first threaten to kill Heyward, they detain him for questioning. Heyward relies upon Magua for interpretation and finally convinces his captors that Hawkeye and his Mohican allies have escaped. This exasperating knowledge nearly causes the angry Hurons to murder Alice. Before violence occurs, howev...	Cooper is not interested in producing simple oppositions between Indians and whites, or in drawing stereotypes. Although he classifies people by race, he also classifies them by those who respect the land and those who believe they can dominate the land. Hawkeye is a hybrid white figure who has an Indian's sympathy for...	141	436	[ "\n \"I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn\n As much as we this night have overwatched!\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nThe instant the shock of this sudden misfortune had abated, Duncan began\nto make his observations on the appearance and proceedings of their\ncaptors.", "Contrary to the usages of ...	[ "\"Was it war, when the tired Indian rested at the sugar-tree to taste his\ncorn!", "The white chief reads in his books, and he believes the Hurons are\nfools!\"", "\"The white man thinks none but\ncowards desert their women.\"", "A few, and they not the least\npowerful and terrific of the band, threw lowerin...	[ "This\nsign, intended for those that might follow, was observed by one of her\nconductors, who restored the glove, broke the remaining branches of the\nbush in such a manner that it appeared to proceed from the struggling of\nsome beast in its branches, and then laid his hand on his tomahawk, with\na look so signif...	[ "That such had been\nthe manner of their descent was rendered quite apparent to Duncan; for\nthey now bore the light bark from the upper end of the rock, and placed\nit in the water, near the mouth of the outer cavern.", "As soon as this\nchange was made, the leader made signs to the prisoners to descend and\nent...	[ "\n \"I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn\n As much as we this night have overwatched!\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nThe instant the shock of this sudden misfortune had abated, Duncan began\nto make his observations on the appearance and proceedings of their\ncaptors.", "Contrary to the usages of ...	me less and less apparent. The sisters rode in his rear, with Heyward at their side, while the Indians flanked the party, and brought up the close of the march, with a caution that seemed never to tire. In this manner they proceeded in uninterrupted silence, except when Heyward addressed some solitary word of comfort t...	"I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn As much as we this night have overwatched!" _Midsummer Night's Dream._ The instant the shock of this sudden misfortune had abated, Duncan began to make his observations on the appearance and proceedings of their captors. Contrary to the usages of the natives in the wanto...	d in a few moments the captives found themselves on the south bank of the stream, nearly opposite to the point where they had struck it the preceding evening. Here was held another short but earnest consultation, during which the horses, to whose panic their owners ascribed their heaviest misfortune, were led from the ...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/11.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_3_part_5.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xi	chapter xi	null	{"name": "Chapter XI", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section4/", "summary": "Heyward tries again to convert Magua to their side by asking him to spare the women for the sake of their father, but Magua shows signs of intensifying malice. He quickly demands a p...	"Cursed by my tribe If I forgive him." _Shylock._ The Indian had selected, for this desirable purpose, one of those steep, pyramidal hills, which bear a strong resemblance to artificial mounds, and which so frequently occur in the valleys of America. The one in question was high and precipitous; its...	4,398	Chapter XI	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section4/	Heyward tries again to convert Magua to their side by asking him to spare the women for the sake of their father, but Magua shows signs of intensifying malice. He quickly demands a private caucus with Cora and reveals that he seeks revenge on Colonel Munro and rejoices in the kidnapping of Munro's daughters. The traito...	Cooper is not interested in producing simple oppositions between Indians and whites, or in drawing stereotypes. Although he classifies people by race, he also classifies them by those who respect the land and those who believe they can dominate the land. Hawkeye is a hybrid white figure who has an Indian's sympathy for...	178	436	[ "\n \"Cursed by my tribe\n If I forgive him.\"", "_Shylock._\n\n\nThe Indian had selected, for this desirable purpose, one of those steep,\npyramidal hills, which bear a strong resemblance to artificial mounds,\nand which so frequently occur in the valleys of America.", "The one in\nquestion was hig...	[ "The one in\nquestion was high and precipitous; its top flattened, as usual; but with\none of its sides more than ordinarily irregular.", "But when he felt the blows of Munro, his spirit lay under the\nbirch.", "He now spoke of the wives and children of the slain; their\ndestitution; their misery, both physical...	[ "I have known many fond and tender\nparents, but never have I seen a man whose heart was softer towards his\nchild.", "echoed the fierce Huron, mistaking, in his anger, the meaning\nof her words; \"the memory of an Indian is longer than the arm of the\npale-faces; his mercy shorter than their justice!", "When M...	[ "well dost thou deserve thy treacherous name!\"", "cried Cora, in\nan ungovernable burst of filial indignation.", "\"None but a fiend could\nmeditate such a vengeance!", "But thou overratest thy power!", "You shall find\nit is, in truth, the heart of Munro you hold, and that it will defy your\nutmost malice...	[ "\n \"Cursed by my tribe\n If I forgive him.\"", "_Shylock._\n\n\nThe Indian had selected, for this desirable purpose, one of those steep,\npyramidal hills, which bear a strong resemblance to artificial mounds,\nand which so frequently occur in the valleys of America.", "The one in\nquestion was hig...	s towards that power which alone could rescue them, her unconscious looks wandered to the countenance of Duncan with infantile dependency. David had contended, and the novelty of the circumstance held him silent, in deliberation on the propriety of the unusual occurrence. The vengeance of the Hurons had now taken a new...	"Cursed by my tribe If I forgive him." _Shylock._ The Indian had selected, for this desirable purpose, one of those steep, pyramidal hills, which bear a strong resemblance to artificial mounds, and which so frequently occur in the valleys of America. The one in question was high and precipitous; its to...	heart of Munro you hold, and that it will defy your utmost malice!" The Indian answered this bold defiance by a ghastly smile, that showed an unaltered purpose, while he motioned her away, as if to close the conference forever. Cora, already regretting her precipitation, was obliged to comply, for Magua instantly left ...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/12.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_4_part_1.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xii	chapter xii	null	{"name": "Chapter XII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section5/", "summary": "A fight breaks out as Hawkeye and the Mohicans attack the Hurons, whose rifles have been set aside. In the battle, Uncas saves Cora and Chingachgook becomes locked in hand-to-hand c...	"_Clo._--I am gone, sir, And anon, sir, I'll be with you again." _Twelfth Night._ The Hurons stood aghast at this sudden visitation of death on one of their band. But, as they regarded the fatal accuracy of an aim which had dared to immolate an enemy at so much hazard to a friend, the name of "La Longue...	5,182	Chapter XII	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section5/	A fight breaks out as Hawkeye and the Mohicans attack the Hurons, whose rifles have been set aside. In the battle, Uncas saves Cora and Chingachgook becomes locked in hand-to-hand combat with Magua, who escapes only by feigning his own death. Hawkeye and the Mohicans soundly defeat the remaining Hurons and free the pri...	Cooper suggests that the landscape poses real danger. The characters have extreme difficulty traveling safely through the frontier wilderness. Still, the group manages to meet the challenges of nature by exploiting nature itself--they take cover under fog, for example, and walk barefoot through the stream to hide their...	155	404	[ "\n \"_Clo._--I am gone, sir,\n And anon, sir,\n I'll be with you again.\"", "_Twelfth Night._\n\n\nThe Hurons stood aghast at this sudden visitation of death on one of\ntheir band.", "But, as they regarded the fatal accuracy of an aim which had\ndared to immolate an enemy at so much hazard to a friend, ...	[ "The fifth and only Huron disengaged at the first\nonset had paused a moment, and then seeing that all around him were\nemployed in the deadly strife, he sought, with hellish vengeance, to\ncomplete the baffled work of revenge.", "Raising a shout of triumph, he\nsprang towards the defenceless Cora, sending his ke...	[ "That I did not\njoin myself to the battle, was less owing to disinclination, than to the\nbonds of the heathen.", "The Delawares, who had believed\ntheir enemy dead, uttered their exclamation of surprise, and were\nfollowing with speed and clamor, like hounds in open view of the deer,\nwhen a shrill and peculiar...	[ "I demand your authorities for such an uncharitable assertion\n(like other advocates of a system, David was not always accurate in his\nuse of terms).", "Name chapter and verse; in which of the holy books do you\nfind language to support you?\"", "\"Book!\"", "repeated Hawkeye, with singular and ill-concealed...	[ "\n \"_Clo._--I am gone, sir,\n And anon, sir,\n I'll be with you again.\"", "_Twelfth Night._\n\n\nThe Hurons stood aghast at this sudden visitation of death on one of\ntheir band.", "But, as they regarded the fatal accuracy of an aim which had\ndared to immolate an enemy at so much hazard to a friend, ...	with weapons; nor was ammunition wanting to render them all effectual. When the foresters had made their selection, and distributed their prizes, the scout announced that the hour had arrived when it was necessary to move. By this time the song of Gamut had ceased, and the sisters had learned to still the exhibition o...	"_Clo._--I am gone, sir, And anon, sir, I'll be with you again." _Twelfth Night._ The Hurons stood aghast at this sudden visitation of death on one of their band. But, as they regarded the fatal accuracy of an aim which had dared to immolate an enemy at so much hazard to a friend, the name of "La Longue Ca...	he scout, who by this time was seated, examining into the state of his rifle with a species of parental assiduity, now looked up at the other in a displeasure that he did not affect to conceal, roughly interrupting further speech. "Doctrine, or no doctrine," said the sturdy woodsman, "'tis the belief of knaves, and the...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/13.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_4_part_2.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xiii	chapter xiii	null	{"name": "Chapter XIII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section5/", "summary": "The party travels to a ruined blockhouse where Chingachgook and Hawkeye won a battle many years before. The memorial site spurs Hawkeye to describe the Mohicans as the last of thei...	"I'll seek a readier path." PARNELL. The route taken by Hawkeye lay across those sandy plains, relieved by occasional valleys and swells of land, which had been traversed by their party on the morning of the same day, with the baffled Magua for their guide. The sun had now fallen low towards the distant mountai...	3,864	Chapter XIII	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section5/	The party travels to a ruined blockhouse where Chingachgook and Hawkeye won a battle many years before. The memorial site spurs Hawkeye to describe the Mohicans as the last of their tribe. The group, with the exception of Chingachgook, sleeps until nightfall, when sounds of nearby enemies cause alarm. The sounds they h...	Cooper suggests that the landscape poses real danger. The characters have extreme difficulty traveling safely through the frontier wilderness. Still, the group manages to meet the challenges of nature by exploiting nature itself--they take cover under fog, for example, and walk barefoot through the stream to hide their...	86	404	[ "\n \"I'll seek a readier path.\"", "PARNELL.", "The route taken by Hawkeye lay across those sandy plains, relieved by\noccasional valleys and swells of land, which had been traversed by their\nparty on the morning of the same day, with the baffled Magua for their\nguide.", "The sun had now fallen low toward...	[ "The recollection of the scout did not deceive\nhim.", "\"Few live who know the block-house was ever raised,\" was the slow and\nmusing answer; \"'tis not often that books are made, and narratives\nwritten, of such a scrimmage as was here fou't atween the Mohicans and\nthe Mohawks, in a war of their own waging.",...	[ "\"They are gone, and they are harmless,\" continued Hawkeye, waving his\nhand, with a melancholy smile, at their manifest alarm: \"they'll never\nshout the war-whoop nor strike a blow with the tomahawk again!", "Hawkeye waited until a signal from the listening Chingachgook assured\nhim that every sound from the ...	[ "He still heard the gentle breathings of the sisters, who lay\nwithin a few feet of him, and not a leaf was ruffled by the passing air,\nof which his ear did not detect the whispering sound.", "At length,\nhowever, the mournful notes of a whippoorwill became blended with the\nmoanings of an owl; his heavy eyes oc...	[ "\n \"I'll seek a readier path.\"", "PARNELL.", "The route taken by Hawkeye lay across those sandy plains, relieved by\noccasional valleys and swells of land, which had been traversed by their\nparty on the morning of the same day, with the baffled Magua for their\nguide.", "The sun had now fallen low toward...	g, to strike when the blow should be needed. Curbing his impatience, he again looked out upon the area, and awaited the result in silence. At that instant the thicket opened, and a tall and armed Huron advanced a few paces into the open space. As he gazed upon the silent block-house, the moon fell upon his swarthy coun...	"I'll seek a readier path." PARNELL. The route taken by Hawkeye lay across those sandy plains, relieved by occasional valleys and swells of land, which had been traversed by their party on the morning of the same day, with the baffled Magua for their guide. The sun had now fallen low towards the distant mountains; a...	the scout; "but in the darkness and among the signs of the wilderness your judgment would be like the folly of a child, and your vigilance thrown away. Do then, like Uncas and myself, sleep, and sleep in safety." Heyward perceived, in truth, that the younger Indian had thrown his form on the side of the hillock while ...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/14.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_4_part_3.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xiv	chapter xiv	null	{"name": "Chapter XIV", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section5/", "summary": "The group treads barefoot through a stream in order to hide its tracks. They pass a pond, and Hawkeye tells the group it is filled with corpses of slain French soldiers. As they nea...	"_Guard._--Qui est la? _Puc._--Paisans, pauvres gens de France." _King Henry VI._ During the rapid movement from the block-house, and until the party was deeply buried in the forest, each individual was too much interested in the escape to hazard a word even in whispers. The scout resumed his post in the adv...	4,847	Chapter XIV	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section5/	The group treads barefoot through a stream in order to hide its tracks. They pass a pond, and Hawkeye tells the group it is filled with corpses of slain French soldiers. As they near the besieged Fort William Henry, they encounter a French sentinel. Heyward talks to him in French, distracting him while Chingachgook sne...	Cooper suggests that the landscape poses real danger. The characters have extreme difficulty traveling safely through the frontier wilderness. Still, the group manages to meet the challenges of nature by exploiting nature itself--they take cover under fog, for example, and walk barefoot through the stream to hide their...	128	404	[ "\n \"_Guard._--Qui est la?", "_Puc._--Paisans, pauvres gens de France.\"", "_King Henry VI._\n\n\nDuring the rapid movement from the block-house, and until the party was\ndeeply buried in the forest, each individual was too much interested in\nthe escape to hazard a word even in whispers.", "The scout resum...	[ "\n \"_Guard._--Qui est la?", "The moon\nhad already sunk into an immense pile of black clouds, which lay\nimpending above the western horizon, when they issued from the low and\ndevious water-course to rise again to the light and level of the sandy\nbut wooded plain.", "\"And you surprised them?\"", "said t...	[ "\"And little time to do it in!\"", "When all\nwas over, the dead, and some say the dying, were cast into that little\npond.", "\"Morning is just touching them below,\" said the deliberate and musing\nscout, \"and the watchers have a mind to wake up the sleepers by the\nsound of cannon.", "\"Here has the cunn...	[ "As they gradually rose\nfrom the level of the valleys, the thick darkness which usually precedes\nthe approach of day began to disperse, and objects were seen in the\nplain and palpable colors with which they had been gifted by nature.", "When they issued from the stunted woods which clung to the barren sides\no...	[ "\n \"_Guard._--Qui est la?", "_Puc._--Paisans, pauvres gens de France.\"", "_King Henry VI._\n\n\nDuring the rapid movement from the block-house, and until the party was\ndeeply buried in the forest, each individual was too much interested in\nthe escape to hazard a word even in whispers.", "The scout resum...	irts of yonder thicket of birch." "We are equal," said Cora, firmly: "on such an errand we will follow to any danger." The scout turned to her with a smile of honest and cordial approbation as he answered,-- "I would I had a thousand men, of brawny limbs and quick eyes, that feared death as little as you! I'd send the...	"_Guard._--Qui est la? _Puc._--Paisans, pauvres gens de France." _King Henry VI._ During the rapid movement from the block-house, and until the party was deeply buried in the forest, each individual was too much interested in the escape to hazard a word even in whispers. The scout resumed his post in the advance, ...	bridles from the mouths, and the saddles off the backs of the jaded beasts, he turned them loose, to glean a scanty subsistence among the shrubs and meagre herbage of that elevated region. "Go," he said, "and seek your food where natur' gives it you; and beware that you become not food to ravenous wolves yourselves, a...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/15.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_4_part_4.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xv	chapter xv	null	{"name": "Chapter XV", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section5/", "summary": "Five days into the siege of Fort William Henry, Heyward discovers that the French have captured Hawkeye. Inside the fort, Heyward sees Alice, who teases him for not seeing her and he...	"Then go we in, to know his embassy; Which I could, with ready guess, declare, Before the Frenchman speak a word of it." _King Henry V._ A few succeeding days were passed amid the privations, the uproar, and the dangers of the siege, which was vigorously pressed by a power against whose approaches Munro pos...	3,983	Chapter XV	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section5/	Five days into the siege of Fort William Henry, Heyward discovers that the French have captured Hawkeye. Inside the fort, Heyward sees Alice, who teases him for not seeing her and her sister enough, and Cora, who seems distressed. Though the French forces eventually release Hawkeye, the French leader Montcalm keeps the...	Cooper suggests that the landscape poses real danger. The characters have extreme difficulty traveling safely through the frontier wilderness. Still, the group manages to meet the challenges of nature by exploiting nature itself--they take cover under fog, for example, and walk barefoot through the stream to hide their...	93	404	[ "\n \"Then go we in, to know his embassy;\n Which I could, with ready guess, declare,\n Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.\"", "_King Henry V._\n\n\nA few succeeding days were passed amid the privations, the uproar, and\nthe dangers of the siege, which was vigorously pressed by a power\nagainst whose app...	[ "It appeared as if Webb, with his army, which lay slumbering\non the banks of the Hudson, had utterly forgotten the strait to which\nhis countrymen were reduced.", "The carelessness engendered by\nthese usages descended even to the war of the Revolution, and lost the\nStates the important fortress of Ticonderoga,...	[ "\"Our accounts vary,\" said Duncan, carelessly; \"the highest, however, has\nnot exceeded twenty thousand men.\"", "Behind these, again, swung, heavily opening and closing in silken folds,\nthe rival standards of England and France.", "\"'Tis nothing,\" she answered, refusing his offered support with feminine\...	[ "I hope there is no reason to distrust\nhis fidelity?\"", "\"The fidelity of 'The Long Rifle' is well known to me,\" returned Munro,\n\"and is above suspicion; though his usual good fortune seems, at last,\nto have failed.", "Montcalm has got him, and with the accursed politeness\nof his nation, he has sent him...	[ "\n \"Then go we in, to know his embassy;\n Which I could, with ready guess, declare,\n Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.\"", "_King Henry V._\n\n\nA few succeeding days were passed amid the privations, the uproar, and\nthe dangers of the siege, which was vigorously pressed by a power\nagainst whose app...	to read his thoughts; then, with a readiness peculiar to himself, he continued, as if assenting to the truth of an enumeration which quite doubled his army,-- "It is a poor compliment to the vigilance of us soldiers, monsieur, that, do what we will, we never can conceal our numbers. If it were to be done at all, one ...	"Then go we in, to know his embassy; Which I could, with ready guess, declare, Before the Frenchman speak a word of it." _King Henry V._ A few succeeding days were passed amid the privations, the uproar, and the dangers of the siege, which was vigorously pressed by a power against whose approaches Munro posses...	their father. Munro was pacing his narrow apartment with a disturbed air and gigantic strides as Duncan entered. "You have anticipated my wishes, Major Heyward," he said; "I was about to request this favor." "I am sorry to see, sir, that the messenger I so warmly recommended has returned in custody of the French! I hop...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/16.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_4_part_5.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xvi	chapter xvi	null	{"name": "Chapter XVI", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section5/", "summary": "Heyward goes to find Munro, planning to report Montcalm's message that the English should surrender. He finds Munro idling with his daughters. To Heyward's surprise, Munro seems uni...	"_Edg._--Before you fight the battle, ope this letter." _King Lear._ Major Heyward found Munro attended only by his daughters. Alice sat upon his knee, parting the gray hairs on the forehead of the old man with her delicate fingers; and, whenever he affected to frown on her trifling, appeasing his assumed anger...	3,998	Chapter XVI	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section5/	Heyward goes to find Munro, planning to report Montcalm's message that the English should surrender. He finds Munro idling with his daughters. To Heyward's surprise, Munro seems uninterested in Montcalm's proposal. He accuses Heyward of racism for preferring Alice to Cora. Munro reveals that Cora and Alice have differe...	Cooper suggests that the landscape poses real danger. The characters have extreme difficulty traveling safely through the frontier wilderness. Still, the group manages to meet the challenges of nature by exploiting nature itself--they take cover under fog, for example, and walk barefoot through the stream to hide their...	165	404	[ "\n \"_Edg._--Before you fight the battle, ope this letter.\"", "_King Lear._\n\n\nMajor Heyward found Munro attended only by his daughters.", "Alice sat upon\nhis knee, parting the gray hairs on the forehead of the old man with her\ndelicate fingers; and, whenever he affected to frown on her trifling,\nappeas...	[ "Ha!", "\"On my honor, no,\" exclaimed Duncan, warmly; \"there would have been an\nabuse of a confided trust, had I taken advantage of my situation for\nsuch a purpose.\"", "we are talking of your pretensions to Miss Munro, are we not,\nsir?\"", "exclaimed Duncan, with an eagerness\nthat might have proved dan...	[ "\"And you cast it on my child as a reproach!", "\"There is a destiny in war,\nto which a brave man knows how to submit, with the same courage that he\nfaces his foes.\"", "\"Our march; the surrender of the place?\"", "Let us then sell our lives at such a rate as shall make our\nenemies believe the purchase t...	[ "exclaimed the angry old man:\n\"enough to make a volume of commentary on French civility.", "Here has this\ngentleman invited me to a conference, and when I send him a capable\nsubstitute, for ye're all that, Duncan, though your years are but few,\nhe answers me with a riddle.\"", "\"He may have thought less f...	[ "\n \"_Edg._--Before you fight the battle, ope this letter.\"", "_King Lear._\n\n\nMajor Heyward found Munro attended only by his daughters.", "Alice sat upon\nhis knee, parting the gray hairs on the forehead of the old man with her\ndelicate fingers; and, whenever he affected to frown on her trifling,\nappeas...	g an open letter towards Munro, as he spoke; "you will there learn, monsieur, that his movements are not likely to prove embarrassing to my army." The veteran seized the offered paper, without waiting for Duncan to translate the speech, and with an eagerness that betrayed how important he deemed its contents. As his ey...	"_Edg._--Before you fight the battle, ope this letter." _King Lear._ Major Heyward found Munro attended only by his daughters. Alice sat upon his knee, parting the gray hairs on the forehead of the old man with her delicate fingers; and, whenever he affected to frown on her trifling, appeasing his assumed anger by...	be to let him behold the firm countenance we maintain in spite of his numbers and his summons. There might be no bad policy in such a stroke, young man." Duncan, who believed it of the last importance that they should speedily come at the contents of the letter borne by the scout, gladly encouraged this idea. "Without ...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/17.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_4_part_6.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xvii	chapter xvii	null	{"name": "Chapter XVII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section5/", "summary": "After dawn, the English slowly file out of the fort, surrounded by columns of solemn French soldiers and leering Indians. One of the Indians tries to take a shawl from an Englishwo...	"Weave we the woof. The thread is spun. The web is wove. The work is done." GRAY. The hostile armies, which lay in the wilds of the Horican, passed the night of the 9th of August, 1757, much in the manner they would had they encountered on the fairest fields of Europe. While the conquered were still, sullen, ...	5,041	Chapter XVII	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section5/	After dawn, the English slowly file out of the fort, surrounded by columns of solemn French soldiers and leering Indians. One of the Indians tries to take a shawl from an Englishwoman as she passes by. When she pulls the shawl away from him, he seizes her baby and smashes it against the rocks. Then he sinks his tomahaw...	Cooper suggests that the landscape poses real danger. The characters have extreme difficulty traveling safely through the frontier wilderness. Still, the group manages to meet the challenges of nature by exploiting nature itself--they take cover under fog, for example, and walk barefoot through the stream to hide their...	147	404	[ "\n \"Weave we the woof.", "The thread is spun.", "The web is wove.", "The work is done.\"", "GRAY.", "The hostile armies, which lay in the wilds of the Horican, passed the\nnight of the 9th of August, 1757, much in the manner they would had they\nencountered on the fairest fields of Europe.", "While t...	[ "At length he appeared satisfied; and having cast his eyes\nimpatiently upwards towards the summit of the eastern mountain, as if\nanticipating the approach of the morning, he was in the act of turning\non his footsteps, when a light sound on the nearest angle of the bastion\ncaught his ear, and induced him to rema...	[ "The savages now fell back, and seemed content to let their enemies\nadvance without further molestation.", "\"And this?\"", "For an\ninstant, the mother stood, like a statue of despair, looking wildly down\nat the unseemly object, which had so lately nestled in her bosom and\nsmiled in her face; and then she r...	[ "The low\nand serious sounds of the sacred music, so well known to the eastern\nprovinces, caught his ear, and instantly drew him to an apartment in an\nadjacent building, which had already been deserted by its customary\ntenants.", "There he found David, pouring out his pious feelings, through\nthe only medium i...	[ "\n \"Weave we the woof.", "The thread is spun.", "The web is wove.", "The work is done.\"", "GRAY.", "The hostile armies, which lay in the wilds of the Horican, passed the\nnight of the 9th of August, 1757, much in the manner they would had they\nencountered on the fairest fields of Europe.", "While t...	the trifle, when the savage relinquished his hold of the shawl, and tore the screaming infant from her arms. Abandoning everything to the greedy grasp of those around her, the mother darted, with distraction in her mien, to reclaim her child. The Indian smiled grimly, and extended one hand, in sign of a willingness to...	"Weave we the woof. The thread is spun. The web is wove. The work is done." GRAY. The hostile armies, which lay in the wilds of the Horican, passed the night of the 9th of August, 1757, much in the manner they would had they encountered on the fairest fields of Europe. While the conquered were still, sullen, and dej...	so." "It is possible that the Indians and stragglers of the enemy may intrude, in which case you will remind them of the terms of the capitulation, and threaten to report their conduct to Montcalm. A word will suffice." "If not, I have that here which shall," returned David, exhibiting his book, with an air in which m...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/18.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_5_part_1.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xviii	chapter xviii	null	{"name": "Chapter XVIII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section6/", "summary": "On the third day after the surprise attack, Hawkeye, the Mohicans, Munro, and Heyward approach the besieged ramparts, which still smoke with fire and smell of death. Cora and Alic...	"Why, anything: An honorable murderer, if you will; For naught I did in hate, but all in honor." _Othello._ The bloody and inhuman scene rather incidentally mentioned than described in the preceding chapter, is conspicuous in the pages of colonial history, by the merited title of "The Massacre...	4,156	Chapter XVIII	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section6/	On the third day after the surprise attack, Hawkeye, the Mohicans, Munro, and Heyward approach the besieged ramparts, which still smoke with fire and smell of death. Cora and Alice remain missing, and the men desperately seek for signs of life. They find no apparent signals or codes. When they begin looking for a trail...	In these chapters, Cooper ponders the moral significance of the massacre. Cora and Alice do not appear in these chapters, and Cooper temporarily turns away from the sentimental concerns of love and marriage to write about the acts of physical violence that men perpetrate against one another. Cooper condemns the interra...	113	422	[ "\n \"Why, anything:\n An honorable murderer, if you will;\n For naught I did in hate, but all in honor.\"", "_Othello._\n\n\nThe bloody and inhuman scene rather incidentally mentioned than\ndescribed in the preceding chapter, is conspicuous in the pages of\ncolonial history, by the merited title...	[ "Deeply regretting this weakness on the part of a sister muse,\nwe shall at once retire from her sacred precincts, within the proper\nlimits of our own humble vocation.", "Of them all, the straggler who brought up the rear appeared\nalone to betray his real thoughts, without fear of observation or dread\nof conse...	[ "I should like to find the\nthing too, if it were only to carry it to the right owner, and that\nwould be bringing the two ends of what I call a long trail\ntogether,--for by this time the broad St. Lawrence, or, perhaps, the\nGreat Lakes themselves, are atwixt us.\"", "The curling and spotless mists, which had b...	[ "But what matters that?\"", "continued the\ndeliberate scout, observing the powerful anxiety and disappointment the\nlisteners exhibited; \"here are the Mohicans and I on one end of the\ntrail, and, rely on it, we find the other, though they should be a\nhundred leagues asunder!", "Gently, gently, Uncas, you ar...	[ "\n \"Why, anything:\n An honorable murderer, if you will;\n For naught I did in hate, but all in honor.\"", "_Othello._\n\n\nThe bloody and inhuman scene rather incidentally mentioned than\ndescribed in the preceding chapter, is conspicuous in the pages of\ncolonial history, by the merited title...	h till she be found." "In that case we may have to journey by different paths; for here she has not passed, light and little as her footstep would be." Heyward drew back, all his ardor to proceed seeming to vanish on the instant. Without attending to this sudden change in the other's humor, the scout, after musing a mo...	"Why, anything: An honorable murderer, if you will; For naught I did in hate, but all in honor." _Othello._ The bloody and inhuman scene rather incidentally mentioned than described in the preceding chapter, is conspicuous in the pages of colonial history, by the merited title of "The Massacre of...	ican, rising on the extremities of his feet, and gazing intently in his front, frightening the raven to some other prey, by the sound and the action. "What is it, boy?" whispered the scout, lowering his tall form into a crouching attitude, like a panther about to take his leap; "God send it be a tardy Frencher, skulkin...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/19.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_5_part_2.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xix	chapter xix	null	{"name": "Chapter XIX", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section6/", "summary": "The group spends the night around a fire in the desolate ruins of the fort. They eat bear meat for dinner. Looking out at the lake, Heyward hears noises. Uncas explain that wolves a...	"_Salar._--Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his flesh; what's that good for?" "_Shy._--To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge." _Merchant of Venice._ The shades of evening had come to increase the dreariness of the place, when the party entered the...	4,484	Chapter XIX	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section6/	The group spends the night around a fire in the desolate ruins of the fort. They eat bear meat for dinner. Looking out at the lake, Heyward hears noises. Uncas explain that wolves are prowling nearby. Hawkeye is pondering the meaning of paradise when he hears another sound. Uncas goes to investigate, and the group hear...	In these chapters, Cooper ponders the moral significance of the massacre. Cora and Alice do not appear in these chapters, and Cooper temporarily turns away from the sentimental concerns of love and marriage to write about the acts of physical violence that men perpetrate against one another. Cooper condemns the interra...	106	422	[ "\n \"_Salar._--Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his\n flesh; what's that good for?\"", "\"_Shy._--To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will\n feed my revenge.\"", "_Merchant of Venice._\n\n\nThe shades of evening had come to increase the dreariness of the place,\nwhen t...	[ "The clouds, as if tired of their furious chase, were\nbreaking asunder; the heavier volumes, gathering in black masses about\nthe horizon, while the lighter scud still hurried above the water, or\neddied among the tops of the mountains, like broken flights of birds,\nhovering around their roosts.", "you hear the...	[ "demanded Duncan; \"we are watched, and, as it would\nseem, marked for destruction.\"", "It was, of course, with a perfect understanding of the minute and\nintricate interest which had armed friend against friend, and brought\nnatural enemies to combat by each other's side, that the scout and his\ncompanions now ...	[ "After an impatient and breathless pause, a plunge was heard in\nthe water, and it was immediately followed by the report of another\nrifle.", "\"There goes Uncas!\"", "said the scout; \"the boy bears a smart piece!", "I know\nits crack, as well as a father knows the language of his child, for I\ncarried the ...	[ "\n \"_Salar._--Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his\n flesh; what's that good for?\"", "\"_Shy._--To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will\n feed my revenge.\"", "_Merchant of Venice._\n\n\nThe shades of evening had come to increase the dreariness of the place,\nwhen t...	future movements, amid so many jarring and savage races of men. Duncan knew enough of Indian customs to understand the reason that the fire was replenished, and why the warriors, not excepting Hawkeye, took their seats within the curl of its smoke with so much gravity and decorum. Placing himself at an angle of the wor...	"_Salar._--Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his flesh; what's that good for?" "_Shy._--To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge." _Merchant of Venice._ The shades of evening had come to increase the dreariness of the place, when the party entered the ruins...	ore than probable the knave will sing his lies about some great ambushment, in which he was outlying on the trail of two Mohicans and a white hunter--for the officers can be considered as little better than idlers in such a scrimmage. Well, let him--let him. There are always some honest men in every nation, though heav...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/20.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_5_part_3.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xx	chapter xx	null	{"name": "Chapter XX", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section6/", "summary": "Hawkeye convinces the others to head north across a lake. As they travel across the lake in a light canoe, they are spotted and soon tailed by Huron canoes. The group's superior padd...	"Land of Albania! let me bend mine eyes On thee, thou rugged nurse of savage men!" _Childe Harold._ The heavens were still studded with stars, when Hawkeye came to arouse the sleepers. Casting aside their cloaks Munro and Heyward were on their feet while the woodsman was still making his low calls, at the ent...	4,207	Chapter XX	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section6/	Hawkeye convinces the others to head north across a lake. As they travel across the lake in a light canoe, they are spotted and soon tailed by Huron canoes. The group's superior paddling tactics enable them to outpace their enemies, and Hawkeye manages to wound one pursuer with Killdeer, his long-range rifle. Upon reac...	In these chapters, Cooper ponders the moral significance of the massacre. Cora and Alice do not appear in these chapters, and Cooper temporarily turns away from the sentimental concerns of love and marriage to write about the acts of physical violence that men perpetrate against one another. Cooper condemns the interra...	127	422	[ "\n \"Land of Albania!", "let me bend mine eyes\n On thee, thou rugged nurse of savage men!\"", "_Childe Harold._\n\n\nThe heavens were still studded with stars, when Hawkeye came to arouse\nthe sleepers.", "Casting aside their cloaks Munro and Heyward were on their\nfeet while the woodsman was still making...	[ "But speak not a syllable; it is rare for a white\nvoice to pitch itself properly in the woods, as we have seen by the\nexample of that miserable devil, the singer.", "A few rods in their front lay another of the low wooded islets,\nbut it appeared as calm and peaceful as if its solitude had never been\ndisturbed...	[ "\"Let us make for the rocks on the main,\" he said, with the mien of a\ntired soldier, \"and give battle to the savages.", "His efforts were seconded by those of the Mohicans, and a\nvery few minutes served to place such a sheet of water between them and\ntheir enemies, that Heyward once more breathed freely.", ...	[ "\"He who wishes to prosper in Indian warfare,\" returned the scout, \"must\nnot be too proud to learn from the wit of a native.", "Lay her more along\nthe land, Sagamore; we are doubling on the varlets, and perhaps they may\ntry to strike our trail on the long calculation.\"", "Hawkeye was not mistaken; for wh...	[ "\n \"Land of Albania!", "let me bend mine eyes\n On thee, thou rugged nurse of savage men!\"", "_Childe Harold._\n\n\nThe heavens were still studded with stars, when Hawkeye came to arouse\nthe sleepers.", "Casting aside their cloaks Munro and Heyward were on their\nfeet while the woodsman was still making...	me my babes." Long and habitual deference to the mandates of his superiors had taught the scout the virtue of obedience. Throwing a last and lingering glance at the distant canoes, he laid aside his rifle, and relieving the wearied Duncan, resumed the paddle, which he wielded with sinews that never tired. His efforts ...	"Land of Albania! let me bend mine eyes On thee, thou rugged nurse of savage men!" _Childe Harold._ The heavens were still studded with stars, when Hawkeye came to arouse the sleepers. Casting aside their cloaks Munro and Heyward were on their feet while the woodsman was still making his low calls, at the entran...	a native. Lay her more along the land, Sagamore; we are doubling on the varlets, and perhaps they may try to strike our trail on the long calculation." Hawkeye was not mistaken; for when the Hurons found their course was likely to throw them behind their chase, they rendered it less direct, until, by gradually bearing...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/21.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_5_part_4.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xxi	chapter xxi	null	{"name": "Chapter XXI", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section6/", "summary": "Uncas finds a trail, and the men follow it, hoping it will lead them to the women. The trail peters out and the party nearly gives up hope, but Uncas manages to divert the course of...	"If you find a man there, he shall die a flea's death." _Merry Wives of Windsor._ The party had landed on the border of a region that is, even to this day, less known to the inhabitants of the States, than the deserts of Arabia, or the steppes of Tartary. It was the sterile and rugged district which separates t...	3,822	Chapter XXI	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section6/	Uncas finds a trail, and the men follow it, hoping it will lead them to the women. The trail peters out and the party nearly gives up hope, but Uncas manages to divert the course of a small stream, revealing a hidden footprint in the sand bed. According to Hawkeye, the footprint indicates that Magua abandoned the horse...	In these chapters, Cooper ponders the moral significance of the massacre. Cora and Alice do not appear in these chapters, and Cooper temporarily turns away from the sentimental concerns of love and marriage to write about the acts of physical violence that men perpetrate against one another. Cooper condemns the interra...	117	422	[ "\n \"If you find a man there, he shall die a flea's death.\"", "_Merry Wives of Windsor._\n\n\nThe party had landed on the border of a region that is, even to this\nday, less known to the inhabitants of the States, than the deserts of\nArabia, or the steppes of Tartary.", "It was the sterile and rugged\ndistr...	[ "\"Heaven protect us from such an error!\"", "At length Uncas, who, with his father, had endeavored\nto trace the route of the horses, came upon a sign of their presence\nthat was quite recent.", "Still no discovery was made.", "\"But,\" cried Duncan, \"I see no signs of--\"\n\n\"The gentle ones,\" interrupte...	[ "After descending an eminence\nto a low bottom, through which a stream glided, they suddenly came to a\nplace where the party of Le Renard had made a halt.", "exclaimed Duncan.", "\"We must get down to it, Sagamore, beginning at the spring, and going\nover the ground by inches.", "False trails, and sudden tur...	[ "The water soon flowed into its\nbed again, but watching the ground on either side, the foresters pursued\ntheir way content with knowing that the trail lay beneath.", "More than\nhalf a mile was passed, before the rill rippled close around the base of\nan extensive and dry rock.", "Here they paused to make sur...	[ "\n \"If you find a man there, he shall die a flea's death.\"", "_Merry Wives of Windsor._\n\n\nThe party had landed on the border of a region that is, even to this\nday, less known to the inhabitants of the States, than the deserts of\nArabia, or the steppes of Tartary.", "It was the sterile and rugged\ndistr...	; and yet you see, by his clothes, the knave has been plundering a white. Ay, Montcalm has raked the woods for his inroad, and a whooping, murdering set of varlets has he gathered together. Can you see where he has put his rifle or his bow?" "He appears to have no arms; nor does he seem to be viciously inclined. Unless...	"If you find a man there, he shall die a flea's death." _Merry Wives of Windsor._ The party had landed on the border of a region that is, even to this day, less known to the inhabitants of the States, than the deserts of Arabia, or the steppes of Tartary. It was the sterile and rugged district which separates the ...	e added; "the singer, being a man whose gifts lay chiefly in his throat and feet, was made to go first, and the others have trod in his steps, imitating their formation." "But," cried Duncan, "I see no signs of--" "The gentle ones," interrupted the scout; "the varlet has found a way to carry them, until he supposed he...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/22.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_5_part_5.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xxii	chapter xxii	null	{"name": "Chapter XXII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section6/", "summary": "As Hawkeye laughs at Gamut's Indian paint and shaved head, the psalmodist tells the men that Magua recently separated Alice and Cora. Magua has sent Alice to a Huron camp and Cora ...	_"Bot._--Are we all met?" _"Qui._--Pat--pat; and here's a marvellous Convenient place for our rehearsal." _Midsummer Night's Dream._ The reader may better imagine, than we describe, the surprise of Heyward. His lurking Indians were suddenly converted into four-footed beasts; his lake into a beaver pond; hi...	4,023	Chapter XXII	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section6/	As Hawkeye laughs at Gamut's Indian paint and shaved head, the psalmodist tells the men that Magua recently separated Alice and Cora. Magua has sent Alice to a Huron camp and Cora to a Delaware settlement; he has released Gamut only because the Indians thought he was insane after they heard his religious singing. Gamut...	In these chapters, Cooper ponders the moral significance of the massacre. Cora and Alice do not appear in these chapters, and Cooper temporarily turns away from the sentimental concerns of love and marriage to write about the acts of physical violence that men perpetrate against one another. Cooper condemns the interra...	141	422	[ "\n _\"Bot._--Are we all met?\"", "_\"Qui._--Pat--pat; and here's a marvellous\n Convenient place for our rehearsal.\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nThe reader may better imagine, than we describe, the surprise of\nHeyward.", "His lurking Indians were suddenly converted into four-footed\nbeasts; his la...	[ "Then seizing the hand of the other, he\nsqueezed it with a gripe that brought the tears into the eyes of the\nplacid David, and wished him joy of his new condition.", "he said.", "bluntly interrupted the scout.", "The elder maiden is conveyed to a neighboring people, whose\nlodges are situate beyond yonder b...	[ "exclaimed the astonished Hawkeye; \"are you tired of seeing the\nsun rise and set?\"", "\"My thoughts were bent on no such vanities, but rather mingled in\nconsolation with those of the maidens.\"", "\"They are captives to the heathen,\" said David; \"and though greatly\ntroubled in spirit, enjoying comfort an...	[ "Then the father spoke, in the language\nof the Delawares, and with a calmness and dignity that instantly\narrested the attention even of those to whom his words were\nunintelligible.", "His gestures were impressive, and at times energetic.", "Once he lifted his arm on high; and as it descended, the action thre...	[ "\n _\"Bot._--Are we all met?\"", "_\"Qui._--Pat--pat; and here's a marvellous\n Convenient place for our rehearsal.\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nThe reader may better imagine, than we describe, the surprise of\nHeyward.", "His lurking Indians were suddenly converted into four-footed\nbeasts; his la...	hat he knew were so abundantly peopled. It struck him, as he gazed at the admirable structures and the wonderful precautions of their sagacious inmates, that even the brutes of these vast wilds were possessed of an instinct nearly commensurate with his own reason; and he could not reflect, without anxiety, on the unequ...	_"Bot._--Are we all met?" _"Qui._--Pat--pat; and here's a marvellous Convenient place for our rehearsal." _Midsummer Night's Dream._ The reader may better imagine, than we describe, the surprise of Heyward. His lurking Indians were suddenly converted into four-footed beasts; his lake into a beaver pond; his cata...	om his red friend, saying-- "We have found that which may be good or evil to us, as Heaven disposes. The Sagamore is of the high blood of the Delawares, and is the great chief of their Tortoises! That some of this stock are among the people of whom the singer tells us, is plain, by his words; and had he but spent half...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/23.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_5_part_6.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xxiii	chapter xxiii	null	{"name": "Chapter XXIII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section6/", "summary": "The village usually has no guards, but the whooping of the children draws the attention of the warriors. Heyward pretends to be a French doctor and attempts to pacify the Hurons, ...	"But though the beast of game The privilege of chase may claim; Though space and law the stag we lend Ere hound we slip, or bow we bend; Who ever recked, where, how, or when The prowling fox was trapped or slain?" _Lady of the Lake._ It is unusual to find an encampment of the natives, like those of th...	4,753	Chapter XXIII	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section6/	The village usually has no guards, but the whooping of the children draws the attention of the warriors. Heyward pretends to be a French doctor and attempts to pacify the Hurons, who believe the French forces abandoned them. A group of Hurons returns with a prisoner and several human scalps. The Huron elders force the ...	In these chapters, Cooper ponders the moral significance of the massacre. Cora and Alice do not appear in these chapters, and Cooper temporarily turns away from the sentimental concerns of love and marriage to write about the acts of physical violence that men perpetrate against one another. Cooper condemns the interra...	120	422	[ "\n \"But though the beast of game\n The privilege of chase may claim;\n Though space and law the stag we lend\n Ere hound we slip, or bow we bend;\n Who ever recked, where, how, or when\n The prowling fox was trapped or slain?\"", "_Lady of the Lake._\n\n\nIt is unusual to find an encampment of the natives...	[ "Though more than one had turned, as if to catch the meaning of his\nwords, they remained unanswered.", "Another silence succeeded this annunciation of the character Duncan had\nassumed.", "The whole scene formed a striking picture,\nwhose frame was composed of the dark and tall border of pines.", "Just then ...	[ "A short and sullen pause succeeded this bold assertion.", "The effect of his indifference began to extend\nitself to the other spectators; and a youngster, who was just quitting\nthe condition of a boy, to enter the state of manhood, attempted to\nassist the termagant, by flourishing his tomahawk before their vi...	[ "The forms in the background looked like unearthly beings, gliding before\nthe eye, and cleaving the air with frantic and unmeaning gestures; while\nthe savage passions of such as passed the flames, were rendered\nfearfully distinct by the gleams that shot athwart their inflamed\nvisages.", "It will easily be und...	[ "\n \"But though the beast of game\n The privilege of chase may claim;\n Though space and law the stag we lend\n Ere hound we slip, or bow we bend;\n Who ever recked, where, how, or when\n The prowling fox was trapped or slain?\"", "_Lady of the Lake._\n\n\nIt is unusual to find an encampment of the natives...	ger. The effect of his indifference began to extend itself to the other spectators; and a youngster, who was just quitting the condition of a boy, to enter the state of manhood, attempted to assist the termagant, by flourishing his tomahawk before their victim, and adding his empty boasts to the taunts of the woman. Th...	"But though the beast of game The privilege of chase may claim; Though space and law the stag we lend Ere hound we slip, or bow we bend; Who ever recked, where, how, or when The prowling fox was trapped or slain?" _Lady of the Lake._ It is unusual to find an encampment of the natives, like those of the m...	their order, and spread themselves about the place in wild confusion. A dozen blazing piles now shed their lurid brightness on the place, which resembled some unhallowed and supernatural arena, in which malicious demons had assembled to act their bloody and lawless rites. The forms in the background looked like uneart...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/24.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_6_part_1.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xxiv	chapter xxiv	null	{"name": "Chapter XXIV", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section7/", "summary": "Heyward searches in vain for Alice. He discovers that the Hurons, who think he is a doctor, want him to cure a sick Indian woman. At this moment, Magua appears and identifies Uncas...	"Thus spoke the sage: the kings without delay Dissolve the council, and their chief obey." POPE'S _Iliad._ A single moment served to convince the youth that he was mistaken. A hand was laid, with a powerful pressure, on his arm, and the low voice of Uncas muttered in his ears,-- "The Hurons are dogs. The sig...	4,346	Chapter XXIV	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section7/	Heyward searches in vain for Alice. He discovers that the Hurons, who think he is a doctor, want him to cure a sick Indian woman. At this moment, Magua appears and identifies Uncas as Le Cerf Agile. He convinces the other Hurons that Uncas should be tortured and killed the next morning. The Huron chief takes Heyward to...	Cooper makes Alice's behavior in the cavern conform to the stereotype of the weak, emotional woman. Alice's fragility inspires Heyward to declare his feelings for her, which suggests that in sentimental novels at least, men find feminine weakness sexually attractive. In sentimental novels, characters frequently demonst...	130	304	[ "\n \"Thus spoke the sage: the kings without delay\n Dissolve the council, and their chief obey.\"", "POPE'S _Iliad._\n\n\nA single moment served to convince the youth that he was mistaken.", "A\nhand was laid, with a powerful pressure, on his arm, and the low voice\nof Uncas muttered in his ears,--\n\n\"The ...	[ "\n \"Thus spoke the sage: the kings without delay\n Dissolve the council, and their chief obey.\"", "After this\ntermination of the scene, Duncan wandered among the lodges, unquestioned\nand unnoticed, endeavoring to find some trace of her in whose behalf he\nincurred the risk he ran.", "Then, with an\neleva...	[ "His countenance\nhad changed with each passing emotion, until it settled into a look of\ndeadly malice.", "The lineaments of the quivering features of Magua proved more\nductile; his countenance gradually lost its character of defiance in an\nexpression of ferocious joy, and heaving a breath from the very bottom...	[ "However much his influence among his\npeople had been impaired by his occasional and besetting weakness, as\nwell as by his desertion of the tribe, his courage and his fame as an\norator were undeniable.", "He never spoke without auditors, and rarely\nwithout making converts to his opinions.", "On the present ...	[ "\n \"Thus spoke the sage: the kings without delay\n Dissolve the council, and their chief obey.\"", "POPE'S _Iliad._\n\n\nA single moment served to convince the youth that he was mistaken.", "A\nhand was laid, with a powerful pressure, on his arm, and the low voice\nof Uncas muttered in his ears,--\n\n\"The ...	heir games as like the reality as possible, one of the boldest of their number had conveyed a few brands into some piles of tree-tops that had hitherto escaped the burning. The blaze of one of these fires lighted the way of the chief and Duncan, and gave a character of additional wildness to the rude scenery. At a litt...	"Thus spoke the sage: the kings without delay Dissolve the council, and their chief obey." POPE'S _Iliad._ A single moment served to convince the youth that he was mistaken. A hand was laid, with a powerful pressure, on his arm, and the low voice of Uncas muttered in his ears,-- "The Hurons are dogs. The sight ...	the strange tongue in which the captive spoke, among which number was Magua. This cunning savage beheld, and instantly profited by his advantage. Dropping the light robe of skin from his shoulder, he stretched forth his arm, and commenced a burst of his dangerous and artful eloquence. However much his influence among ...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/25.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_6_part_2.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xxv	chapter xxv	null	{"name": "Chapter XXV", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section7/", "summary": "The chief sends away the other women and exhorts Heyward to cure the sick squaw. However, when the bear begins to growl, the chief takes fright and leaves. The bear removes its own ...	_"Snug._--Have you the lion's part written? Pray you, if it be, give it me, for I am slow of study." _"Quince_.--You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring." _Midsummer Night's Dream._ There was a strange blending of the ridiculous with that which was solemn in this scene. The beast still con...	4,683	Chapter XXV	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section7/	The chief sends away the other women and exhorts Heyward to cure the sick squaw. However, when the bear begins to growl, the chief takes fright and leaves. The bear removes its own head and Heyward realizes the bear is actually Hawkeye in disguise. Hawkeye explains that he led Munro and Chingachgook to safety, leaving ...	Cooper makes Alice's behavior in the cavern conform to the stereotype of the weak, emotional woman. Alice's fragility inspires Heyward to declare his feelings for her, which suggests that in sentimental novels at least, men find feminine weakness sexually attractive. In sentimental novels, characters frequently demonst...	206	304	[ "\n _\"Snug._--Have you the lion's part written?", "Pray you, if it be, give\n it me, for I am slow of study.\"", "_\"Quince_.--You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nThere was a strange blending of the ridiculous with that which was\nsolemn in this sc...	[ "The latter listened to the movements of the Indian\nwith that air of sagacity that a bear is known to possess, until another\necho announced that he had also left the cavern, when it turned and came\nwaddling up to Duncan, before whom it seated itself, in its natural\nattitude, erect like a man.", "Had it\nbeen ...	[ "The representative of the\nbear had certainly been an entire stranger to the delicious emotions of\nthe lover while his arms encircled his mistress; and he was, perhaps, a\nstranger also to the nature of that feeling of ingenuous shame that\noppressed the trembling Alice.", "\"Keep to your tale,\" said the impat...	[ "Had he pursued the sudden and fierce impulse of the instant,\nhe would have cast himself on the Huron, and committed their fortunes to\nthe issue of a deadly struggle.", "But, without arms of any description,\nignorant of what succor his subtle enemy could command, and charged with\nthe safety of one who was jus...	[ "\n _\"Snug._--Have you the lion's part written?", "Pray you, if it be, give\n it me, for I am slow of study.\"", "_\"Quince_.--You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nThere was a strange blending of the ridiculous with that which was\nsolemn in this sc...	. As they approached the little door of bark, a murmur of voices without announced that the friends and relatives of the invalid were gathered about the place, patiently awaiting a summons to re-enter. "If I open my lips to speak," Hawkeye whispered, "my English, which is the genuine tongue of a white-skin, will tell t...	_"Snug._--Have you the lion's part written? Pray you, if it be, give it me, for I am slow of study." _"Quince_.--You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring." _Midsummer Night's Dream._ There was a strange blending of the ridiculous with that which was solemn in this scene. The beast still continued...	oly sanction of that parent before you urge me further." "Though more I should not, less I could not say," the youth was about to answer, when he was interrupted by a light tap on his shoulder. Starting to his feet, he turned, and, confronting the intruder, his looks fell on the dark form and malignant visage of Magua....
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/26.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_6_part_3.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xxvi	chapter xxvi	null	{"name": "Chapter XXVI", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section7/", "summary": "Still dressed as a bear, Hawkeye returns to the camp, where he finds Gamut. The bear frightens Gamut until he understands that it is simply Hawkeye in disguise. The two men proceed...	"_Bot._--Let me play the lion too." _Midsummer Night's Dream._ Notwithstanding the high resolution of Hawkeye, he fully comprehended all the difficulties and dangers he was about to incur. In his return to the camp, his acute and practised intellects were intently engaged in devising means to counteract a watch...	3,742	Chapter XXVI	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section7/	Still dressed as a bear, Hawkeye returns to the camp, where he finds Gamut. The bear frightens Gamut until he understands that it is simply Hawkeye in disguise. The two men proceed to the main lodge and find Uncas. When the Hurons are at a safe distance from the lodge, Uncas takes the bear costume, Hawkeye takes Gamut'...	Cooper makes Alice's behavior in the cavern conform to the stereotype of the weak, emotional woman. Alice's fragility inspires Heyward to declare his feelings for her, which suggests that in sentimental novels at least, men find feminine weakness sexually attractive. In sentimental novels, characters frequently demonst...	138	304	[ "\n \"_Bot._--Let me play the lion too.\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nNotwithstanding the high resolution of Hawkeye, he fully comprehended\nall the difficulties and dangers he was about to incur.", "In his return to\nthe camp, his acute and practised intellects were intently engaged in\ndevising means ...	[ "\"Can these things be?\"", "The young Mohican, who at first believed his\nenemies had sent in a real beast to torment him, and try his nerves,\ndetected, in those performances that to Heyward had appeared so\naccurate, certain blemishes, that at once betrayed the counterfeit.", "Had\nHawkeye been aware of the ...	[ "In other words, while he had implicit\nfaith in the ability of Balsam's ass to speak, he was somewhat skeptical\non the subject of a bear's singing; and yet he had been assured of the\nlatter, on the testimony of his own exquisite organs.", "Then, heaving a\nheavy sigh, probably among the last he ever drew in pi...	[ "But the moment the noise of the serpent was\nheard, he arose, and cast his looks on each side of him, bending his\nhead low, and turning it inquiringly in every direction, until his keen\neye rested on the shaggy monster, where it remained riveted, as though\nfixed by the power of a charm.", "Again the same soun...	[ "\n \"_Bot._--Let me play the lion too.\"", "_Midsummer Night's Dream._\n\n\nNotwithstanding the high resolution of Hawkeye, he fully comprehended\nall the difficulties and dangers he was about to incur.", "In his return to\nthe camp, his acute and practised intellects were intently engaged in\ndevising means ...	sion as would, probably, in a more refined state of society have been termed "a grand crash." Among his actual auditors, however, it merely gave him an additional claim to that respect which they never withhold from such as are believed to be the subjects of mental alienation. The little knot of Indians drew back in a ...	"_Bot._--Let me play the lion too." _Midsummer Night's Dream._ Notwithstanding the high resolution of Hawkeye, he fully comprehended all the difficulties and dangers he was about to incur. In his return to the camp, his acute and practised intellects were intently engaged in devising means to counteract a watchful...	prolonged the entertainment a little in pique. But the scornful expression of the young man's eye admitted of so many constructions, that the worthy scout was spared the mortification of such a discovery. As soon, therefore, as David gave the pre-concerted signal, a low hissing sound was heard in the lodge, in place o...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/27.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_6_part_4.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xxvii	chapter xxvii	null	{"name": "Chapter XXVII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section7/", "summary": "The Huron warriors descend upon the man they think is Uncas, although the man they attack is actually Gamut in disguise. Gamut begins to sing wildly, and the Hurons draw back in c...	"_Ant._ I shall remember: When Caesar says _Do this_, it is performed." _Julius Caesar._ The impatience of the savages who lingered about the prison of Uncas, as has been seen, had overcome their dread of the conjurer's breath. They stole cautiously, and with beating hearts, to a crevice, through which the fa...	3,524	Chapter XXVII	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section7/	The Huron warriors descend upon the man they think is Uncas, although the man they attack is actually Gamut in disguise. Gamut begins to sing wildly, and the Hurons draw back in confusion. The Hurons discover the sick woman, now dead, in the cavern, along with the bound Magua. They release Magua, and he explains how Ha...	Cooper makes Alice's behavior in the cavern conform to the stereotype of the weak, emotional woman. Alice's fragility inspires Heyward to declare his feelings for her, which suggests that in sentimental novels at least, men find feminine weakness sexually attractive. In sentimental novels, characters frequently demonst...	157	304	[ "\n \"_Ant._ I shall remember:\n When Caesar says _Do this_, it is performed.\"", "_Julius Caesar._\n\n\nThe impatience of the savages who lingered about the prison of Uncas, as\nhas been seen, had overcome their dread of the conjurer's breath.", "They\nstole cautiously, and with beating hearts, to a crevice,...	[ "\n \"_Ant._ I shall remember:\n When Caesar says _Do this_, it is performed.\"", "Such a direct and palpable contradiction of the tale\nrelated by the father, caused all eyes to be turned on him.", "Not a word escaped him, though his hand played convulsively with\nthe handle of his knife, while his lowering ...	[ "They\nstole cautiously, and with beating hearts, to a crevice, through which\nthe faint light of the fire was glimmering.", "[24]\n\nDuring the utterance of this extraordinary address, the companions of\nthe speaker were as grave and as attentive to his language as though\nthey were all equally impressed with it...	[ "His companions consented in silence, and the whole of the savage party\nleft the cavern and returned to the council-lodge.", "When they were\nseated, all eyes turned on Magua, who understood, from such an\nindication, that, by common consent, they had devolved the duty of\nrelating what had passed on him.", "H...	[ "\n \"_Ant._ I shall remember:\n When Caesar says _Do this_, it is performed.\"", "_Julius Caesar._\n\n\nThe impatience of the savages who lingered about the prison of Uncas, as\nhas been seen, had overcome their dread of the conjurer's breath.", "They\nstole cautiously, and with beating hearts, to a crevice,...	himself engaged, and intimated, though with sufficient delicacy and circumlocution, the expediency of bestowing on their relative a portion of that wisdom for which they were so renowned. [24] During the utterance of this extraordinary address, the companions of the speaker were as grave and as attentive to his langu...	"_Ant._ I shall remember: When Caesar says _Do this_, it is performed." _Julius Caesar._ The impatience of the savages who lingered about the prison of Uncas, as has been seen, had overcome their dread of the conjurer's breath. They stole cautiously, and with beating hearts, to a crevice, through which the faint...	awares. With the advantage of possessing this important intelligence, the chief warily laid his plans before his fellows, and, as might have been anticipated from his eloquence and cunning, they were adopted without a dissenting voice. They were, briefly, as follows, both in opinions and in motives. It has been already...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/28.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_6_part_5.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xxviii	chapter xxviii	null	{"name": "Chapter XXVIII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section7/", "summary": "Magua appears in the Delaware camp the next morning, looking unarmed and peaceful. He discusses the current situation with Hard Heart, the great Delaware orator. However, Magua d...	"Brief, I pray you; for you see, 'tis a busy time with me." _Much Ado About Nothing._ The tribe, or rather half tribe, of Delawares, which has been so often mentioned, and whose present place of encampment was so nigh the temporary village of the Hurons, could assemble about an equal number of warriors with the...	3,489	Chapter XXVIII	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section7/	Magua appears in the Delaware camp the next morning, looking unarmed and peaceful. He discusses the current situation with Hard Heart, the great Delaware orator. However, Magua does not learn any news about Cora, who first came to the camp as his prisoner. He seeks to please the chief of the tribe by giving him gifts. ...	Cooper makes Alice's behavior in the cavern conform to the stereotype of the weak, emotional woman. Alice's fragility inspires Heyward to declare his feelings for her, which suggests that in sentimental novels at least, men find feminine weakness sexually attractive. In sentimental novels, characters frequently demonst...	87	304	[ "\n \"Brief, I pray you; for you see, 'tis a busy time with me.\"", "_Much Ado About Nothing._\n\n\nThe tribe, or rather half tribe, of Delawares, which has been so often\nmentioned, and whose present place of encampment was so nigh the\ntemporary village of the Hurons, could assemble about an equal number of\nw...	[ "Magua waited a little, to permit his words to soften the feelings of the\nDelawares, before he added,--\n\n\"Have there not been strange moccasins in the woods?", "\"The Hurons love their friends the Delawares,\" returned Magua.", "Has not my brother\nscented spies in the woods?\"", "\"Did my brother beat ou...	[ "Fortified by these assurances, the\ndark figure left the brow of the natural rocky terrace, where it had\nstood a moment, drawn in a strong outline against the blushing morning\nsky, and moved with dignity into the very centre of the huts.", "\"The Hurons love their friends the Delawares,\" returned Magua.", "...	[ "His countenance grew very sensibly less stern, and now deigned\nto answer more directly.", "\"There have been strange moccasins about my camp.", "They have been tracked\ninto my lodges.\"", "\"Did my brother beat out the dogs?\"", "asked Magua, without adverting in\nany manner to the former equivocation of...	[ "\n \"Brief, I pray you; for you see, 'tis a busy time with me.\"", "_Much Ado About Nothing._\n\n\nThe tribe, or rather half tribe, of Delawares, which has been so often\nmentioned, and whose present place of encampment was so nigh the\ntemporary village of the Hurons, could assemble about an equal number of\nw...	one who belonged rather to another world than to this, was received by his people. After a suitable and decent pause, the principal chiefs arose; and approaching the patriarch, they placed his hands reverently on their heads, seeming to entreat a blessing. The younger men were content with touching his robe, or even dr...	"Brief, I pray you; for you see, 'tis a busy time with me." _Much Ado About Nothing._ The tribe, or rather half tribe, of Delawares, which has been so often mentioned, and whose present place of encampment was so nigh the temporary village of the Hurons, could assemble about an equal number of warriors with the la...	rned from their Canada father!" This insinuation was a home thrust, and one that in a more advanced state of society, would have entitled Magua to the reputation of a skilful diplomatist. The recent defection of the tribe had, as they well knew themselves, subjected the Delawares to much reproach among their French all...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/29.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_6_part_6.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xxix	chapter xxix	null	{"name": "Chapter XXIX", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section7/", "summary": "More than a thousand Delawares congregate to hear the judgment of the ancient and revered sage Tamenund, who is more than one hundred years old. Shortly after Tamenund appears, war...	"The assembly seated, rising o'er the rest, Achilles thus the king of men addressed." POPE'S _Iliad._ Cora stood foremost among the prisoners, entwining her arms in those of Alice, in the tenderness of sisterly love. Notwithstanding the fearful and menacing array of savages on every side of her, no apprehensi...	4,609	Chapter XXIX	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section7/	More than a thousand Delawares congregate to hear the judgment of the ancient and revered sage Tamenund, who is more than one hundred years old. Shortly after Tamenund appears, warriors bring Hawkeye, Cora, Alice, and Heyward to the assembly. In an attempt to protect his companion and stall for time, Heyward claims to ...	Cooper makes Alice's behavior in the cavern conform to the stereotype of the weak, emotional woman. Alice's fragility inspires Heyward to declare his feelings for her, which suggests that in sentimental novels at least, men find feminine weakness sexually attractive. In sentimental novels, characters frequently demonst...	137	304	[ "\n \"The assembly seated, rising o'er the rest,\n Achilles thus the king of men addressed.\"", "POPE'S _Iliad._\n\n\nCora stood foremost among the prisoners, entwining her arms in those of\nAlice, in the tenderness of sisterly love.", "Notwithstanding the fearful\nand menacing array of savages on every side ...	[ "Heyward smiled to himself at the idea of a competition with the scout,\nthough he determined to persevere in the deception, until apprised of\nthe real designs of Magua.", "If you know such a\nbeing as God, thank Him, therefore, in your inward soul; for you have\nreason.\"", "On Hawkeye he cast a glance of res...	[ "Gradually the expression of Tamenund's features changed, and losing\ntheir vacancy in admiration, they lighted with a portion of that\nintelligence which a century before had been wont to communicate his\nyouthful fire to the extensive bands of the Delawares.", "He met everywhere\nwith eyes riveted on his own, h...	[ "Before opening his mouth,\nhowever, he bent his eyes slowly along the whole living boundary of\nearnest faces as if to temper his expressions to the capacities of his\naudience.", "On Hawkeye he cast a glance of respectful enmity; on Duncan, a\nlook of inextinguishable hatred; the shrinking figure of Alice he\ns...	[ "\n \"The assembly seated, rising o'er the rest,\n Achilles thus the king of men addressed.\"", "POPE'S _Iliad._\n\n\nCora stood foremost among the prisoners, entwining her arms in those of\nAlice, in the tenderness of sisterly love.", "Notwithstanding the fearful\nand menacing array of savages on every side ...	the younger warriors, stepping behind Heyward and the scout, passed thongs so dexterously and rapidly around their arms, as to hold them both in instant bondage. The former was too much engrossed with his precious and nearly insensible burden, to be aware of their intentions before they were executed; and the latter, w...	"The assembly seated, rising o'er the rest, Achilles thus the king of men addressed." POPE'S _Iliad._ Cora stood foremost among the prisoners, entwining her arms in those of Alice, in the tenderness of sisterly love. Notwithstanding the fearful and menacing array of savages on every side of her, no apprehension ...	"They will yet find the Huron a singing-bird," said Duncan, endeavoring to adopt the figurative language of the natives. "It is good. We will know who can shut the ears of men. Brother," added the chief, turning his eyes on Magua, "the Delawares listen." Thus singled, and directly called on to declare his object, the H...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/30.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_7_part_1.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xxx	chapter xxx	null	{"name": "Chapter XXX", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section8/", "summary": "Uncas appears before Tamenund. Uncas is serene, confident in his identity as a Delaware descendant. However, when Uncas insults Magua by calling him a liar, Tamenund reacts angrily,...	"If you deny me, fie upon your law! There is no force in the decrees of Venice: I stand for judgment; answer, shall I have it?" _Merchant of Venice._ The silence continued unbroken by human sounds for many anxious minutes. Then the waving multitude opened and shut again, and Uncas stood in the living circle...	4,060	Chapter XXX	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section8/	Uncas appears before Tamenund. Uncas is serene, confident in his identity as a Delaware descendant. However, when Uncas insults Magua by calling him a liar, Tamenund reacts angrily, instructing the warriors to torture Uncas by fire. One of the warriors tears off Uncas's hunting shirt, and the assembled Indians stare wi...	null	203	1	[ "\n \"If you deny me, fie upon your law!", "There is no force in the decrees of Venice:\n I stand for judgment; answer, shall I have it?\"", "_Merchant of Venice._\n\n\nThe silence continued unbroken by human sounds for many anxious minutes.", "Then the waving multitude opened and shut again, and Uncas stoo...	[ "The sage started, and bent his head aside, as if to catch the fleeting\nsounds of some passing melody.", "he exclaimed.", "at length the bewildered prophet exclaimed.", "Then we were rulers and sagamores over the land.", "\"And the woman that Huron left with my warriors?\"", "\"Nothing hence but what Mag...	[ "\"The pale-face has slain my young men; his name is great for the blows\nhe has struck the Lenape.\"", "\"My son has not done well to call him\nfriend.\"", "\"The false Delaware trembles lest he should hear the words of Tamenund,\"\nhe said.", "His people steadily construed his\nunintelligible language into ...	[ "\"If a Mingo has whispered that much in the ear of the Delaware, he has\nonly shown that he is a singing-bird,\" said the scout, who now believed\nthat it was time to vindicate himself from such offensive charges, and\nwho spoke in the tongue of the man he addressed, modifying his Indian\nfigures, however, with hi...	[ "\n \"If you deny me, fie upon your law!", "There is no force in the decrees of Venice:\n I stand for judgment; answer, shall I have it?\"", "_Merchant of Venice._\n\n\nThe silence continued unbroken by human sounds for many anxious minutes.", "Then the waving multitude opened and shut again, and Uncas stoo...	and said, in a steady and settled voice,-- "Le Renard Subtil is a great chief; he has but one mind. Come," he added, laying his hand too familiarly on the shoulder of his captive to urge her onward; "a Huron is no tattler; we will go." The maiden drew back in lofty womanly reserve, and her dark eye kindled, while the...	"If you deny me, fie upon your law! There is no force in the decrees of Venice: I stand for judgment; answer, shall I have it?" _Merchant of Venice._ The silence continued unbroken by human sounds for many anxious minutes. Then the waving multitude opened and shut again, and Uncas stood in the living circle. All...	'The Long Rifle.'" "La Longue Carabine!" exclaimed Tamenund, opening his eyes, and regarding the scout sternly. "My son has not done well to call him friend." "I call him so who proves himself such," returned the young chief, with great calmness, but with a steady mien. "If Uncas is welcome among the Delawares, then is...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/31.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_7_part_2.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xxxi	chapter xxxi	null	{"name": "Chapter XXXI", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section8/", "summary": "Uncas stares longingly after Cora as Magua drags her away. After retreating to his lodge to consider an appropriate plan of action, Uncas emerges to initiate a war ritual dedicated...	_"Flue._--Kill the poys and the luggage! 'Tis expressly against the law of arms; 'tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be offered in the world." _King Henry V._ So long as their enemy and his victim continued in sight, the multitude remained motionless as beings charmed to the place by some ...	2,985	Chapter XXXI	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section8/	Uncas stares longingly after Cora as Magua drags her away. After retreating to his lodge to consider an appropriate plan of action, Uncas emerges to initiate a war ritual dedicated to the god Manitou, or Great Spirit. This dance and war song center around a young pine tree, stripped of its bark and painted with red str...	null	211	1	[ "\n_\"Flue._--Kill the poys and the luggage!", "'Tis expressly against the\n law of arms; 'tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be\n offered in the world.\"", "_King Henry V._\n\n\nSo long as their enemy and his victim continued in sight, the multitude\nremained motionless as beings charmed ...	[ "During the\nmomentous hour that succeeded, the encampment resembled a hive of\ntroubled bees, who only awaited the appearance and example of their\nleader to take some distant and momentous flight.", "Uncas moved with a slow and dignified tread towards the post, which he\nimmediately commenced encircling with a ...	[ "having bound up the arm; \"you will be a chief!\"", "If sounds have not lost their virtue, I'll soon have a discourse\nwith the honest fellow, and that in a voice he'll find more agreeable\nthan the speech of 'Killdeer.'\"", "In the meantime I will wrap it in a badge of\nwampum!", "The lad departed, prouder ...	[ "He had actually gained the crags, and was leaping up their\nsides with incredible activity, when a shot from the woods showed how\naccurate had been the judgment of the scout.", "The boy answered it with a\nfeeble but contemptuous shout; and immediately a second bullet was sent\nafter him from another part of th...	[ "\n_\"Flue._--Kill the poys and the luggage!", "'Tis expressly against the\n law of arms; 'tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be\n offered in the world.\"", "_King Henry V._\n\n\nSo long as their enemy and his victim continued in sight, the multitude\nremained motionless as beings charmed ...	ic war-whoop, which burst from the lips of the young warrior, like a combination of all the frightful sounds of battle. The last was like the first, humble and imploring. Three times did he repeat this song, and as often did he encircle the post in his dance. At the close of the first turn, a grave and highly esteemed ...	_"Flue._--Kill the poys and the luggage! 'Tis expressly against the law of arms; 'tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be offered in the world." _King Henry V._ So long as their enemy and his victim continued in sight, the multitude remained motionless as beings charmed to the place by some pow...	hat of a serpent, towards the desired treasure. He was successful; and in another moment he appeared flying across the narrow opening that skirted the base of the terrace on which the village stood, with the velocity of an arrow, and bearing a prize in each hand. He had actually gained the crags, and was leaping up the...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/32.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_7_part_3.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xxxii	chapter xxxii	null	{"name": "Chapter XXXII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section8/", "summary": "As the group approaches the stream near the peaceful beaver pond, the sound of gunfire erupts, and a mortally wounded Delaware drops to the ground. The Hurons have tracked the for...	"But plagues shall spread, and funeral fires increase, Till the great king, without a ransom paid, To her own Chrysa send the black-eyed maid." POPE. During the time Uncas was making this disposition of his forces, the woods were still, and, with the exception of those who had met in council, apparently as ...	5,368	Chapter XXXII	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section8/	As the group approaches the stream near the peaceful beaver pond, the sound of gunfire erupts, and a mortally wounded Delaware drops to the ground. The Hurons have tracked the forces led by Hawkeye and Uncas. A battle ensues, and Hawkeye and Uncas's men manage to defeat the Hurons. As the fighting winds down, Magua ret...	null	273	1	[ "\n \"But plagues shall spread, and funeral fires increase,\n Till the great king, without a ransom paid,\n To her own Chrysa send the black-eyed maid.\"", "POPE.", "During the time Uncas was making this disposition of his forces, the\nwoods were still, and, with the exception of those who had met in\ncounci...	[ "The party was, however, scarcely uncovered before a volley from a dozen\nrifles was heard in their rear; and a Delaware leaping high into the\nair, like a wounded deer, fell at his whole length, perfectly dead.", "Many fell, in making the experiment, under the\nbullets and the blows of the pursuing Delawares.", ...	[ "See, see; the knaves are getting in\nthat clump of pines, like bees settling after their flight.", "Without\nexhausting himself with fruitless efforts, the cunning Magua suffered\nhis body to drop to the length of his arms, and found a fragment for his\nfeet to rest on.", "\"We must close!\"", "Though his wo...	[ "The land fell away rather\nprecipitately in front, and beneath their eyes stretched, for several\nmiles, a narrow, dark, and wooded vale.", "It was through this dense and\ndark forest that Uncas was still contending with the main body of the\nHurons.", "The Mohican and his friends advanced to the brow of the h...	[ "\n \"But plagues shall spread, and funeral fires increase,\n Till the great king, without a ransom paid,\n To her own Chrysa send the black-eyed maid.\"", "POPE.", "During the time Uncas was making this disposition of his forces, the\nwoods were still, and, with the exception of those who had met in\ncounci...	undred warriors. Waving his hands right and left, the young chief pointed out the enemy to his followers, who separated in pursuit. The war now divided, both wings of the broken Hurons seeking protection in the woods again, hotly pressed by the victorious warriors of the Lenape. A minute might have passed, but the soun...	"But plagues shall spread, and funeral fires increase, Till the great king, without a ransom paid, To her own Chrysa send the black-eyed maid." POPE. During the time Uncas was making this disposition of his forces, the woods were still, and, with the exception of those who had met in council, apparently as much ...	them now in face and back!" The effect on the Hurons was instantaneous. Discouraged by an assault from a quarter that left them no opportunity for cover, their warriors uttered a common yell of disappointment, and breaking off in a body, they spread themselves across the opening, heedless of every consideration but fl...
27,681	false	sparknotes	all_chapterized_books/27681-chapters/33.txt	finished_summaries/sparknotes/The Last of the Mohicans/section_7_part_4.txt	The Last of the Mohicans.chapter xxxiii	chapter xxxiii	null	{"name": "Chapter XXXIII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section8/", "summary": "The next morning, the Delawares mourn their dead. Munro holds Cora's body, and Chingachgook stares sorrowfully at his dead son. Tamenund gives a wise speech, and a ritualistic ch...	"They fought, like brave men, long and well, They piled that ground with Moslem slain, They conquered--but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won; Then saw in death his eyelids close Calmly, as to a...	6,650	Chapter XXXIII	https://web.archive.org/web/20210224235434/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mohicans/section8/	The next morning, the Delawares mourn their dead. Munro holds Cora's body, and Chingachgook stares sorrowfully at his dead son. Tamenund gives a wise speech, and a ritualistic chanting honors the dead. The Delaware maidens chant that Uncas and Cora will be together in the Happy Hunting Ground, and Chingachgook offers t...	Uncas emerges as a hero in Chapter XXX, counteracting Magua's false claims to leadership in earlier chapters. Hawkeye acts as a father figure for Uncas in several chapters, and here it seems that Hawkeye has passed on to his surrogate son his qualities of leadership and charisma. Cooper suggests that the natural landsc...	173	720	[ "\n \"They fought, like brave men, long and well,\n They piled that ground with Moslem slain,\n They conquered--but Bozzaris fell,\n Bleeding at every vein.", "His few surviving comrades saw\n His smile when rang their proud hurrah,\n And the red field was won;\n Then saw in death his eyelids close\n...	[ "HALLECK.", "So riveted and intense had been that gaze, and so changeless his\nattitude, that a stranger might not have told the living from the dead,\nbut for the occasional gleamings of a troubled spirit that shot athwart\nthe dark visage of one, and the death-like calm that had forever settled\non the lineamen...	[ "At a later day it\nadmitted another tribe, when the appellation was changed to that of the\n\"Six Nations.\"", "They\noften address their victims in this way, reproaching them for cowardice,\nor commending their resolution, as they may happen to exhibit fortitude,\nor the reverse in suffering.", "Many corps of...	[ "Cora, my child!", "if the prayers of a heartbroken father could avail thee\nnow, how blessed shouldst thou be!", "Come, gentlemen,\" he added, looking\nabout him with an air of lofty composure, though the anguish that\nquivered in his faded countenance was far too powerful to be concealed,\n\"our duty here is ...	[ "\n \"They fought, like brave men, long and well,\n They piled that ground with Moslem slain,\n They conquered--but Bozzaris fell,\n Bleeding at every vein.", "His few surviving comrades saw\n His smile when rang their proud hurrah,\n And the red field was won;\n Then saw in death his eyelids close\n...	t and wailing. The words were connected by no regular continuation, but as one ceased another took up the eulogy, or lamentation, whichever it might be called, and gave vent to her emotions in such language as was suggested by her feelings and the occasion. At intervals the speaker was interrupted by general and loud b...	"They fought, like brave men, long and well, They piled that ground with Moslem slain, They conquered--but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won; Then saw in death his eyelids close Calmly, as to a n...	ed song, "that one who better knows the Christian fashions is about to speak." The females stood modestly aside, and, from having been the principal actors in the scene, they now became the meek and attentive observers of that which followed. During the time David was occupied in pouring out the pious feelings of his s...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/28.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_0_part_1.txt	Dracula.chapter 1	chapter 1	null	{"name": "Chapter 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-1-5", "summary": "Chapter I is taken from the May 3rd and May 4th entries in Jonathan Harker's journal. Harker is on a business trip in Eastern Europe, making his way across one of the...	_3 May. Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from ...	5,306	Chapter 1	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-1-5	Chapter I is taken from the May 3rd and May 4th entries in Jonathan Harker's journal. Harker is on a business trip in Eastern Europe, making his way across one of the most isolated regions of Europe. He is going to meet with a noble of Transylvania, Count Dracula. The heading to his journal entry tells us that Jonathan...	Dracula is an epistolary novel; this form allows Stoker to juxtapose the rational world of the English Victorian observer with the supernatural world of Count Dracula. English men and women of Stoker's time had a strong tradition of observation and letter writing; educated English people used journals and letters to se...	520	442	[ "\n_3 May.", "Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at\nVienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an\nhour late.", "Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I\ngot of it from the train and the little I could walk through the\nstreets.", "I fe...	[ "At every\nstation there were groups of people, sometimes crowds, and in all sorts\nof attire.", "They had all full white sleeves of some kind or other,\nand most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of something\nfluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, but of course there\nwere petticoats under ...	[ "All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of\nbeauty of every kind.", "I must say they were not\ncheering to me, for amongst them were \"Ordog\"--Satan, \"pokol\"--hell,\n\"stregoica\"--witch, \"vrolok\" and \"vlkoslak\"--both of which mean the same\nthing, one being Slovak and the other ...	[ "The road was rugged, but still we\nseemed to fly over it with a feverish haste.", "I could not understand then\nwhat the haste meant, but the driver was evidently bent on losing no\ntime in reaching Borgo Prund.", "I was told that this road is in summertime\nexcellent, but that it had not yet been put in order...	[ "\n_3 May.", "Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at\nVienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an\nhour late.", "Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I\ngot of it from the train and the little I could walk through the\nstreets.", "I fe...	dly, so that the driver had to hold them up. Then, amongst a chorus of screams from the peasants and a universal crossing of themselves, a caleche, with four horses, drove up behind us, overtook us, and drew up beside the coach. I could see from the flash of our lamps, as the rays fell on them, that the horses were coa...	_3 May. Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from ...	ep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and pointed crags, till these were themselves lost in the distance, where the snowy peaks rose grandly. Here and there seemed mighty rifts in the mountains, through which, as the sun b...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/29.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_0_part_2.txt	Dracula.chapter 2	chapter 2	null	{"name": "Chapter 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-1-5", "summary": "Taken from the May 5th, 7th, and 8th entries of Jonathan Harker's journal. Jonathan is dropped off at the great castle of Dracula, where, he is welcomed by the Count ...	_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than it really is. I have not yet been...	5,111	Chapter 2	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-1-5	Taken from the May 5th, 7th, and 8th entries of Jonathan Harker's journal. Jonathan is dropped off at the great castle of Dracula, where, he is welcomed by the Count himself. The Count is a tall old man, with a white mustache, dressed all in black. Despite the Count's apparent age, during their handshake Jonathan notic...	The novel's description of Dracula is fully in line with the superstitions surrounding the vampire: super-strong, cold to the touch, sharp-toothed, pointy-eared, shockingly pale. Jonathan also describes the more ordinary elements of Dracula's appearanceStoker was keenly interested in physiognomy, the pseudo-science tha...	666	337	[ "\n\n_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully\nawake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place.", "In\nthe gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark\nways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than\nit really is.", ...	[ "What music they make!\"", "\"Well, I know that, did I move and speak in your\nLondon, none there are who would not know me for a stranger.", "I have been so long\nmaster that I would be master still--or at least that none other should\nbe master of me.", "The lamps were also lit\nin the study or library, and...	[ "The lamps were also lit\nin the study or library, and I found the Count lying on the sofa,\nreading, of all things in the world, an English Bradshaw's Guide.", "I found supper already laid out.", "It is late, and my people are not\navailable.", "During the time I was eating it the Count asked me many\nquesti...	[ "\"Not so,\" he answered.", "\"Well, I know that, did I move and speak in your\nLondon, none there are who would not know me for a stranger.", "That is not\nenough for me.", "Here I am noble; I am _boyar_; the common people know me,\nand I am master.", "But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one; men\nk...	[ "\n\n_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully\nawake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place.", "In\nthe gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark\nways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than\nit really is.", ...	en with my kodak views of it from various points. The house has been added to, but in a very straggling way, and I can only guess at the amount of ground it covers, which must be very great. There are but few houses close at hand, one being a very large house only recently added to and formed into a private lunatic asy...	_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than it really is. I have not yet been...	e words, but yet I know not how to speak them." "Indeed," I said, "you speak excellently." "Not so," he answered. "Well, I know that, did I move and speak in your London, none there are who would not know me for a stranger. That is not enough for me. Here I am noble; I am _boyar_; the common people know me, and I am ma...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/30.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_0_part_3.txt	Dracula.chapter 3	chapter 3	null	{"name": "Chapter 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-1-5", "summary": "Taken from the May 8th, May 12th, May 15th, and May 16th entries of Jonathan Harker's journal. When Jonathan realizes he is trapped, he finally is able to realize the...	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 f...	5,442	Chapter 3	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-1-5	Taken from the May 8th, May 12th, May 15th, and May 16th entries of Jonathan Harker's journal. When Jonathan realizes he is trapped, he finally is able to realize the danger he is in. He resolves not to tell the Count, because the Count is clearly responsible. Jonathan spies on the Count, watching him make the bed and ...	Finally, Jonathan can no longer deny the supernatural nature of what is happening in the castlealthough still, he does not use the word vampire, nor does he often name the events explicitly as supernatural. Still, the reader is always one step ahead of Jonathan. When Dracula enthusiastically recounts the military explo...	535	452	[ "\nWhen 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\nevery window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my\nhelplessness overpowered all other feelings.", "When I look back after a\nfew hours I think I m...	[ "I had spent the day wearily over\nbooks, and, simply to keep my mind occupied, went over some of the\nmatters I had been examined in at Lincoln's Inn.", "Now, suppose\nI, who have much of affairs, wish to ship goods, say, to Newcastle, or\nDurham, or Harwich, or Dover, might it not be that it could with more\nea...	[ "Is it not so?\"", "He knows well that I am imprisoned; and as he has done it\nhimself, and has doubtless his own motives for it, he would only deceive\nme if I trusted him fully with the facts.", "I was just\nabout to look at them when I saw the door-handle move.", "Here, too, when they came, they found\nthe...	[ "There was some sense of freedom in the vast expanse,\ninaccessible though it was to me, as compared with the narrow darkness\nof the courtyard.", "Looking out on this, I felt that I was indeed in\nprison, and I seemed to want a breath of fresh air, though it were of\nthe night.", "I am beginning to feel this n...	[ "\nWhen 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\nevery window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my\nhelplessness overpowered all other feelings.", "When I look back after a\nfew hours I think I m...	oneliness in the place which chilled my heart and made my nerves tremble. Still, it was better than living alone in the rooms which I had come to hate from the presence of the Count, and after trying a little to school my nerves, I found a soft quietude come over me. Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in ol...	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 f...	your own chamber or to these rooms, for your rest will then be safe. But if you be not careful in this respect, then"--He finished his speech in a gruesome way, for he motioned with his hands as if he were washing them. I quite understood; my only doubt was as to whether any dream could be more terrible than the unnat...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/31.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_0_part_4.txt	Dracula.chapter 4	chapter 4	null	{"name": "Chapter 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-1-5", "summary": "Taken from the May 16th, May 18th, May 19th, May 28th, May 31st, June 17th, June 24th, June 25th, June 29th, and June 30th entries of Jonathan Harker's journal. Jonat...	I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but could not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, there were certain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by in a manner which was not my habit. My...	5,815	Chapter 4	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-1-5	Taken from the May 16th, May 18th, May 19th, May 28th, May 31st, June 17th, June 24th, June 25th, June 29th, and June 30th entries of Jonathan Harker's journal. Jonathan wakes up in his room. He searches the castle and finds the door he used to reach the hidden wing in which he saw the three women; the door is now bolt...	Notice that part of Jonathan's immersion in the world of Dracula's castle was his adaptation to a nocturnal schedule. Jonathan was beginning to sleep during the days and wake for the nightshis adaptation shows the signs of a kind of travel. Part of travel is adjusting to new time zones and schedules. Travel here involv...	856	659	[ "\nI awoke in my own bed.", "If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must\nhave carried me here.", "I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but\ncould not arrive at any unquestionable result.", "To be sure, there were\ncertain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by\nin a manner w...	[ "It would shock and\nfrighten her to death were I to expose my heart to her.", "The\nman who took them pressed them to his heart and bowed, and then put them\nin his cap.", "The suit in which I had travelled was gone, and also my overcoat and\nrug; I could find no trace of them anywhere.", "They looked up at ...	[ "What shall I do?", "The sight seemed to\nparalyse me, and the shovel turned in my hand and glanced from the face,\nmerely making a deep gash above the forehead.", "As the Count did not come in, I have written here....\n\n * * * * *\n\nThe Count has come.", "Regaining my room, I ...	[ "Good-bye, Mina, if I fail; good-bye, my faithful friend and\nsecond father; good-bye, all, and last of all Mina!", "* * * * *\n\n_Same day, later._--I have made the effort, and God, helping me, have\ncome safely back to this room.", "I must put down every detail in order.", "I\nwent w...	[ "\nI awoke in my own bed.", "If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must\nhave carried me here.", "I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but\ncould not arrive at any unquestionable result.", "To be sure, there were\ncertain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by\nin a manner w...	I not go to-night?" "Because, dear sir, my coachman and horses are away on a mission." "But I would walk with pleasure. I want to get away at once." He smiled, such a soft, smooth, diabolical smile that I knew there was some trick behind his smoothness. He said:-- "And your baggage?" "I do not care about it. I can sen...	I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but could not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, there were certain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by in a manner which was not my habit. My...	have seen him myself crawl from his window. Why should not I imitate him, and go in by his window? The chances are desperate, but my need is more desperate still. I shall risk it. At the worst it can only be death; and a man's death is not a calf's, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. God help me in my ...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/32.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_0_part_5.txt	Dracula.chapter 5	chapter 5	null	{"name": "Chapter 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-1-5", "summary": "Taken from letters between Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra, dated May 9th, May 17th, May 24th; also from the April 25th entry of Dr. Seward's diary ; a letter from Quin...	"_9 May._ "My dearest Lucy,-- "Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. I have been working very hard l...	3,253	Chapter 5	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-1-5	Taken from letters between Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra, dated May 9th, May 17th, May 24th; also from the April 25th entry of Dr. Seward's diary ; a letter from Quincey P. Morris to Arthur Holmwood, dated May 25th; and a telegram from Arthur Holmwood to Quincey Morris, dated May 26th. After the dark world of the first...	The return of the narrative to England is both a relief and cause for apprehension. The world of England is bright and full of normal human drama, but the reader knows that this world will soon be invaded by the destructive power of Dracula. Mina and Lucy will become two of the Count's targets: the two women are friend...	343	267	[ "\n\n\"_9 May._\n\n\"My dearest Lucy,--\n\n\"Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed\nwith work.", "The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying.", "I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together\nfreely and build our castles in the air.", "...	[ "I\nam longing to hear all his news.", "Just fancy!", "There, it is all out.", "But oh, Mina, I love him; I love him; I love him!", "But, for goodness' sake, don't tell any of the girls, or they would be\ngetting all sorts of extravagant ideas and imagining themselves injured\nand slighted if in their very ...	[ "I must tell you\nbeforehand that Mr. Morris doesn't always speak slang--that is to say,\nhe never does so to strangers or before them, for he is really well\neducated and has exquisite manners--but he found out that it amused me\nto hear him talk American slang, and whenever I was present, and there\nwas no one to...	[ "Well, my dear, number One came just\nbefore lunch.", "I told you of him, Dr. John Seward, the lunatic-asylum\nman, with the strong jaw and the good forehead.", "He was very cool\noutwardly, but was nervous all the same.", "He had evidently been schooling\nhimself as to all sorts of little things, and remembe...	[ "\n\n\"_9 May._\n\n\"My dearest Lucy,--\n\n\"Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed\nwith work.", "The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying.", "I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together\nfreely and build our castles in the air.", "...	n well fancy if you have never tried it. He says that I afford him a curious psychological study, and I humbly think I do. I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore. That is slang again, but never mind; Arthur says that every day. There, it is all ...	"_9 May._ "My dearest Lucy,-- "Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. I have been working very hard l...	can from Texas, and he looks so young and so fresh that it seems almost impossible that he has been to so many places and has had such adventures. I sympathise with poor Desdemona when she had such a dangerous stream poured in her ear, even by a black man. I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man wi...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/33.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_1_part_1.txt	Dracula.chapter 6	chapter 6	null	{"name": "Chapter 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-6-10", "summary": "Taken from the July 24th and August 1st entries of Mina Murray's journal; the June 5th, June 18th, July 1st, July 8th, July 19th, July 20th; the July 26th, July 27th...	_24 July. Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in which they have rooms. This is a lovely place. The little river, the Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the harbour. A great viaduct runs across, wit...	5,630	Chapter 6	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-6-10	Taken from the July 24th and August 1st entries of Mina Murray's journal; the June 5th, June 18th, July 1st, July 8th, July 19th, July 20th; the July 26th, July 27th, and August 3rd, August 6th entries of Mina Murray's journal. As Mina said she would, she keeps a diary during her visit to Lucy. The two women are in the...	Whitby, although full of history and ghost stories, provides a strong contrast to Transylvania, continuing to express the theme of contrast between England and the East. In Whitby, the ghosts are eerie but do little more than provide local color. The white lady of the abbey is seen occasionally through a windowshe does...	432	231	[ "\n_24 July.", "Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and\nlovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in\nwhich they have rooms.", "This is a lovely place.", "The little river, the\nEsk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the\nharbour.", "A ...	[ "This is to my mind the nicest spot in\nWhitby, for it lies right over the town, and has a full view of the\nharbour and all up the bay to where the headland called Kettleness\nstretches out into the sea.", "Mind, I don't say that they never was, but I do say that they wasn't in\nmy time.", "Really, Mr. Swales,...	[ "Do you think\nthat will be really necessary?\"", "Between the two piers there is a\nnarrow opening into the harbour, which then suddenly widens.", "I had written asking him if he had heard, and he said the enclosed\nhad just been received.", "I must only pray to God for patience.", "Do ye think that all th...	[ "His redeeming quality is a love of\nanimals, though, indeed, he has such curious turns in it that I\nsometimes imagine he is only abnormally cruel.", "His pets are of odd\nsorts.", "Just now his hobby is catching flies.", "He has at present such a\nquantity that I have had myself to expostulate.", "To my a...	[ "\n_24 July.", "Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and\nlovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in\nwhich they have rooms.", "This is a lovely place.", "The little river, the\nEsk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the\nharbour.", "A ...	ause! I must not think too much of this, or I may be tempted; a good cause might turn the scale with me, for may not I too be of an exceptional brain, congenitally? How well the man reasoned; lunatics always do within their own scope. I wonder at how many lives he values a man, or if at only one. He has closed the acco...	_24 July. Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in which they have rooms. This is a lovely place. The little river, the Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the harbour. A great viaduct runs across, wit...	ch curious turns in it that I sometimes imagine he is only abnormally cruel. His pets are of odd sorts. Just now his hobby is catching flies. He has at present such a quantity that I have had myself to expostulate. To my astonishment, he did not break out into a fury, as I expected, but took the matter in simple seriou...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/34.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_1_part_2.txt	Dracula.chapter 7	chapter 7	null	{"name": "Chapter 7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-6-10", "summary": "This chapter is taken from clippings in the local paper. The clippings include the log of the Demeter, the ship seen at the end of Chapter 6. Also taken from the Aug...	From a Correspondent. _Whitby_. One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been experienced here, with results both strange and unique. The weather had been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of August. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the great body of h...	5,877	Chapter 7	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-6-10	This chapter is taken from clippings in the local paper. The clippings include the log of the Demeter, the ship seen at the end of Chapter 6. Also taken from the August 8th entry of Mina's journal. The Russian ship Demeter is washed ashore by a terrible and sudden storm, and it is discovered that the entire crew was mi...	The terrifying events of the voyage form a story within a story, a frightening foretaste of what is to come and one of the novel's great successes. Dracula destroys the entire crew, allowing them to live only long enough to facilitate his voyage to England. The ship's name, Demeter, is an allusion to the Greek earth go...	424	518	[ "\nFrom a Correspondent.", "_Whitby_.", "One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been\nexperienced here, with results both strange and unique.", "The weather had\nbeen somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of\nAugust.", "Saturday evening was as fine as was ever kno...	[ "The weather had\nbeen somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of\nAugust.", "Could not account for it.", "Fear there will be some trouble, as either he or the men will do\nsome violence.", "Mate\nand I agreed to go armed henceforth and wait for any sign of cause.", "He came close to me...	[ "Nothing is talked about here to-day except\nthe strange coincidence; the officials of the Board of Trade have been\nmost exacting in seeing that every compliance has been made with\nexisting regulations.", "Shortly before ten o'clock the stillness of the air grew quite\noppressive, and the silence was so marked ...	[ "Mate cheerful again, and all on good terms.", "Praised men for work in bad\nweather.", "Passed Gibralter and out through Straits.", "All well.", "* * * * *\n\n_24 July_.--There seems some doom over this ship.", "Already a hand short,\nand entering on the Bay of Biscay with wild we...	[ "\nFrom a Correspondent.", "_Whitby_.", "One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been\nexperienced here, with results both strange and unique.", "The weather had\nbeen somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of\nAugust.", "Saturday evening was as fine as was ever kno...	ight_.--Woke up from few minutes' sleep by hearing a cry, seemingly outside my port. Could see nothing in fog. Rushed on deck, and ran against mate. Tells me heard cry and ran, but no sign of man on watch. One more gone. Lord, help us! Mate says we must be past Straits of Dover, as in a moment of fog lifting he saw Nor...	From a Correspondent. _Whitby_. One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been experienced here, with results both strange and unique. The weather had been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of August. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the great body of hol...	ay produced at the inquest; and a more strange narrative than the two between them unfold it has not been my lot to come across. As there is no motive for concealment, I am permitted to use them, and accordingly send you a rescript, simply omitting technical details of seamanship and supercargo. It almost seems as thou...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/35.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_1_part_3.txt	Dracula.chapter 8	chapter 8	null	{"name": "Chapter 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-6-10", "summary": "Taken from the August 8th, August 11th, August 12th, August 13th, August 14th, August 15th, and August 17th entries of Mina Murray's journal. Also includes correspon...	_Same day, 11 o'clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I had made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night. We had a lovely walk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some dear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse, and frightened the wits out of...	6,093	Chapter 8	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-6-10	Taken from the August 8th, August 11th, August 12th, August 13th, August 14th, August 15th, and August 17th entries of Mina Murray's journal. Also includes correspondence between Samuel F. Billington and Son, Whitby solicitors, and Messrs. Carter, Patterson, and Company, of London, in business letters dated August 17th...	Lucy's seduction by Dracula parallels sexual seduction. The virgin is ruined by the aristocratic vampire, in keeping with a common Gothic theme of the aristocracy preying on women of non-aristocratic blood. His penetration of her parallels the penetration of sex, and Lucy is unable or unwilling to save herself from him...	621	459	[ "\n\n_Same day, 11 o'clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired!", "If it were not that I\nhad made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night.", "We had a lovely\nwalk.", "Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some\ndear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse,\nand ...	[ "She has more colour in her cheeks than usual, and\nlooks, oh, so sweet.", "When I came in\nview again the cloud had passed, and the moonlight struck so brilliantly\nthat I could see Lucy half reclining with her head lying over the back\nof the seat.", "My heart beat so loud all the time that sometimes I though...	[ "The dear fellow has been ill; that is why he did not write.", "Again I awoke in the night, and found Lucy sitting up in bed,\nstill asleep, pointing to the window.", "She was fast asleep, and\nby her, seated on the window-sill, was something that looked like a\ngood-sized bird.", "His cries are at times awfu...	[ "She has not told Lucy, and made me promise secrecy;\nher doctor told her that within a few months, at most, she must die, for\nher heart is weakening.", "At any time, even now, a sudden shock would be\nalmost sure to kill her.", "Ah, we were wise to keep from her the affair of\nthe dreadful night of Lucy's sle...	[ "\n\n_Same day, 11 o'clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired!", "If it were not that I\nhad made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night.", "We had a lovely\nwalk.", "Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some\ndear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse,\nand ...	ing, of _that_ night, and that it was here, on this very seat, I found her asleep. As she told me she tapped playfully with the heel of her boot on the stone slab and said:-- "My poor little feet didn't make much noise then! I daresay poor old Mr. Swales would have told me that it was because I didn't want to wake up ...	_Same day, 11 o'clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I had made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night. We had a lovely walk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some dear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse, and frightened the wits out of...	ind out what it is. * * * * * _15 August._--Rose later than usual. Lucy was languid and tired, and slept on after we had been called. We had a happy surprise at breakfast. Arthur's father is better, and wants the marriage to come off soon. Lucy is full of quiet joy, and her mother is glad and s...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/36.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_1_part_4.txt	Dracula.chapter 9	chapter 9	null	{"name": "Chapter 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-6-10", "summary": "Taken from letters between Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra, dated August 24th and August 30th; the August 20th and August 23rd entries of Dr. Seward's diary; the Augus...	"My dearest Lucy,-- "I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here. I feel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except that I knew I was coming t...	5,717	Chapter 9	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-6-10	Taken from letters between Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra, dated August 24th and August 30th; the August 20th and August 23rd entries of Dr. Seward's diary; the August 24th and August 25th entries of Lucy Westenra's journal; letters and telegrams between Arthur Holmwood and Dr. Seward, dated August 31st, September 1st, ...	For much of the novel, Stoker indulges the reader with dramatic irony, meaning that the reader knows the significance of events long before the characters do. When Mina seals Jonathan's journal, she does not realize that she is causing a costly delay in understanding the force that is attacking Lucy. Because of the str...	491	311	[ "\n\"My dearest Lucy,--\n\n\"I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we\nparted at the railway station at Whitby.", "Well, my dear, I got to Hull\nall right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here.", "I\nfeel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except tha...	[ "I do believe the dear soul thought I might be jealous lest my\npoor dear should have fallen in love with any other girl.", "The poor dear meant to\nhave said a part of the past, but he cannot think of time yet, and I\nshall not wonder if at first he mixes up not only the month, but the\nyear.", "She seems bett...	[ "We went into her boudoir, and till we got there her gaiety remained,\nfor the servants were coming and going.", "I must\nnot wish you no pain, for that can never be; but I do hope you will be\n_always_ as happy as I am _now_.", "\"No,\" said he; \"I am sick of all that rubbish!\"", "Do not fail!", "Then he...	[ "I shall come in for tea, and we can go away together; I\nam filled with anxiety, and want to consult with you alone as soon as I\ncan after you have seen her.", "Do not fail!", "\"ARTHUR.\"", "_Telegram, Arthur Holmwood to Seward._\n\n\"_1 September._\n\n\"Am summoned to see my father, who is worse.", "Am ...	[ "\n\"My dearest Lucy,--\n\n\"I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we\nparted at the railway station at Whitby.", "Well, my dear, I got to Hull\nall right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here.", "I\nfeel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except tha...	Lucy's discretion, her mother was lunching out, so that we were alone with her. Van Helsing made a very careful examination of the patient. He is to report to me, and I shall advise you, for of course I was not present all the time. He is, I fear, much concerned, but says he must think. When I told him of our friendshi...	"My dearest Lucy,-- "I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here. I feel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except that I knew I was coming t...	nxiety, and want to consult with you alone as soon as I can after you have seen her. Do not fail! "ARTHUR." _Telegram, Arthur Holmwood to Seward._ "_1 September._ "Am summoned to see my father, who is worse. Am writing. Write me fully by to-night's post to Ring. Wire me if necessary." _Letter from Dr. Seward to Arthu...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/37.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_1_part_5.txt	Dracula.chapter 10	chapter 10	null	{"name": "Chapter 10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-6-10", "summary": "Including a letter from Dr. Seward to Arthur Holmwood, dated September 6th; the September 7th, September 8th, and September 9th entries of Dr. Seward's diary; the S...	"_6 September._ "My dear Art,-- "My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit. There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs. Westenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me professionally about her. I took advantage of the opportunity, and told her that...	5,513	Chapter 10	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-6-10	Including a letter from Dr. Seward to Arthur Holmwood, dated September 6th; the September 7th, September 8th, and September 9th entries of Dr. Seward's diary; the September 9th entry of Lucy Westenra's diary; and the September 10th and September 11th entries of Dr. Seward's diary. Dr. Van Helsing arrives and examines L...	Some critics have claimed that in Dracula, modern science is represented as useless against the vampire's primal evil, and that only the old knowledge of superstitions and folklore provide any kind of defense. But a close look at Van Helsing reveals this position to be an overstatement: although the Victorian mindsets ...	273	348	[ "\n\"_6 September._\n\n\"My dear Art,--\n\n\"My news to-day is not so good.", "Lucy this morning had gone back a bit.", "There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs.\nWestenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me\nprofessionally about her.", "I took advantage of the ...	[ "I asked.", "\"In the not-so-far-off you will be happy\nthat you have done all for her you love.", "Van Helsing turning to me, said:\n\n\"He is so young and strong and of blood so pure that we need not\ndefibrinate it.\"", "You attend him; I will look to her.\"", "It at once occurred to me that this wound, ...	[ "The velvet band again covered the red mark.", "\"I have not examined it yet,\" I answered, and then and there proceeded\nto loose the band.", "\"Good boy!\"", "As he spoke, he was\ndipping into his bag and producing the instruments for transfusion; I\nhad taken off my coat and rolled up my shirt-sleeve.", ...	[ "Seward's Diary--continued._\n\n_8 September._--I sat up all night with Lucy.", "The opiate worked itself\noff towards dusk, and she waked naturally; she looked a different being\nfrom what she had been before the operation.", "Her spirits even were good,\nand she was full of a happy vivacity, but I could see e...	[ "\n\"_6 September._\n\n\"My dear Art,--\n\n\"My news to-day is not so good.", "Lucy this morning had gone back a bit.", "There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs.\nWestenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me\nprofessionally about her.", "I took advantage of the ...	ick!" he said. "Bring the brandy." I flew to the dining-room, and returned with the decanter. He wetted the poor white lips with it, and together we rubbed palm and wrist and heart. He felt her heart, and after a few moments of agonising suspense said:-- "It is not too late. It beats, though but feebly. All our work i...	"_6 September._ "My dear Art,-- "My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit. There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs. Westenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me professionally about her. I took advantage of the opportunity, and told her that...	it up with her she almost pooh-poohed the idea, pointing out her daughter's renewed strength and excellent spirits. I was firm, however, and made preparations for my long vigil. When her maid had prepared her for the night I came in, having in the meantime had supper, and took a seat by the bedside. She did not in any ...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/38.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_2_part_1.txt	Dracula.chapter 11	chapter 11	null	{"name": "Chapter 11", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-11-15", "summary": "Includes the September 12th entry of Lucy Westenra's diary; the September 13th entry of Dr. Seward's diary; the September 17th entry of Lucy Westenra's diary; a Se...	_12 September._--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr. Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He positively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been right, for I feel comfort from them already. Somehow, I do not dread being alone to-night, and I can go to s...	4,746	Chapter 11	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-11-15	Includes the September 12th entry of Lucy Westenra's diary; the September 13th entry of Dr. Seward's diary; the September 17th entry of Lucy Westenra's diary; a September 18th article from the Pall Mall Gazette; the September 17th entry of Dr. Seward's diary; a telegram from Van Helsing to Dr. Seward, dated September 1...	Van Helsing has very limited success in fighting Dracula. Mrs. Westenra unwittingly removes the garlic, dooming her daughter to another night of draining. Van Helsing tells no one of the thing that is responsible. When Lucy is revitalized by new blood, Seward is left doubting his own sanity, wondering if working at the...	534	253	[ "\n_12 September._--How good they all are to me.", "I quite love that dear Dr.\nVan Helsing.", "I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers.", "He\npositively frightened me, he was so fierce.", "And yet he must have been\nright, for I feel comfort from them already.", "Somehow, I do not dread\nbein...	[ "Well, here I am to-night, hoping for sleep,\nand lying like Ophelia in the play, with \"virgin crants and maiden\nstrewments.\"", "The Professor smiled, and looked quite jubilant.", "But the room was awfully stuffy.", "He had been able to retain his self-command whilst the poor lady\nwas present, for he knew...	[ "The leaves were turning to all kinds of beautiful colours,\nbut had not yet begun to drop from the trees.", "I was surprised that\nthe maids did not come back.", "I don't so much mind the fust--the 'ittin' with a pole\nafore I chucks in their dinner; but I waits till they've 'ad their\nsherry and kawffee, so t...	[ "\"Well, it was a odd thing, but when the animiles see us a-talkin' they\nlay down, and when I went over to Bersicker he let me stroke his ears\nsame as ever.", "That there man kem over, and blessed but if he didn't put\nin his hand and stroke the old wolf's ears too!", "\"'Tyke care,' says I.", "'Bersicker i...	[ "\n_12 September._--How good they all are to me.", "I quite love that dear Dr.\nVan Helsing.", "I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers.", "He\npositively frightened me, he was so fierce.", "And yet he must have been\nright, for I feel comfort from them already.", "Somehow, I do not dread\nbein...	phonograph. _Memorandum left by Lucy Westenra._ _17 September. Night._--I write this and leave it to be seen, so that no one may by any chance get into trouble through me. This is an exact record of what took place to-night. I feel I am dying of weakness, and have barely strength to write, but it must be done if I di...	_12 September._--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr. Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He positively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been right, for I feel comfort from them already. Somehow, I do not dread being alone to-night, and I can go to s...	arn't nothing for them to 'owl at. There warn't no one near, except some one that was evidently a-callin' a dog somewheres out back of the gardings in the Park road. Once or twice I went out to see that all was right, and it was, and then the 'owling stopped. Just before twelve o'clock I just took a look round afore tu...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/39.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_2_part_2.txt	Dracula.chapter 12	chapter 12	null	{"name": "Chapter 12", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-11-15", "summary": "Includes the September 18th and September 19th entries of Dr. Seward's diary; an unopened letter from Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra, dated September 17th; a report ...	_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early. Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while, finding no response, I knocked and rang a...	6,737	Chapter 12	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-11-15	Includes the September 18th and September 19th entries of Dr. Seward's diary; an unopened letter from Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra, dated September 17th; a report from Patrick Hennessey, M. D. to Dr. Seward, dated September 20th; an unopened letter from Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra, dated September 18th; and the Septem...	Renfield's licking of Seward's blood suggests why he has given up eating flieshis desire to consume life has found a new model in the vampire. He seeks to serve his master and also to imitate him. A series of tragedies hit all at once: Mrs. Westenra, Arthur's father, Mr. Hawkins, and Lucy all day within a few days of e...	608	181	[ "\n_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early.", "Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone.", "I knocked gently\nand rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her\nmother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door.", "After a while,\nfinding no respon...	[ "Every window and door was fastened and\nlocked, and I returned baffled to the porch.", "Are we too late?", "With his usual\nrecuperative energy, he went on: \"Come.", "Van Helsing called in one of the women, and told her to stay with her\nand not to take her eyes off her till we returned, and then beckoned m...	[ "Is not that\nso?\"", "Truly Miss Lucy, if she be\nsad in the foes that beset her, is at least happy in the friends that\nlove her.", "\"I think I came just in the nick of time.", "In particular, by some trick of the light, the\ncanine teeth looked longer and sharper than the rest.", "He covered his face wi...	[ "Whilst still asleep she\ntook the paper from her breast and tore it in two.", "Van Helsing stepped\nover and took the pieces from her.", "All the same, however, she went on\nwith the action of tearing, as though the material were still in her\nhands; finally she lifted her hands and opened them as though scatt...	[ "\n_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early.", "Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone.", "I knocked gently\nand rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her\nmother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door.", "After a while,\nfinding no respon...	etiquette of death which the British woman of the lower classes always rigidly observes. The room was, therefore, dimly dark. It was, however, light enough for our purposes. Van Helsing's sternness was somewhat relieved by a look of perplexity. He was evidently torturing his mind about something, so I waited for an ins...	_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early. Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while, finding no response, I knocked and rang a...	seemed to act as a stimulant; she rallied a little, and spoke to him more brightly than she had done since we arrived. He too pulled himself together, and spoke as cheerily as he could, so that the best was made of everything. It was now nearly one o'clock, and he and Van Helsing are sitting with her. I am to relieve t...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/40.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_2_part_3.txt	Dracula.chapter 13	chapter 13	null	{"name": "Chapter 13", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-11-15", "summary": "From Dr. Seward's diary; the September 22nd entry of Mina Harker's journal; the September 22nd entry of Dr. Seward's diary; and two articles from the Westminster G...	The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and her mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted--or blessed--with something of his own obsequious suavity. Even the woman who performed the last offices ...	6,267	Chapter 13	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-11-15	From Dr. Seward's diary; the September 22nd entry of Mina Harker's journal; the September 22nd entry of Dr. Seward's diary; and two articles from the Westminster Gazette, dated September 25th. Lucy and Mrs. Westenra are to be buried together. Van Helsing takes possession of Lucy's diary, and the two doctors deal with t...	Stoker continues to establish, even under tragic conditions, the stalwart manhood of his band of heroes. Van Helsing and Arthur affirm that they are friends, and Arthur, though crushed, is comforted by the steady gentleness of Quincey Morris and Dr. Seward. Lucy has now become a victimizer of children. Her attacks agai...	350	145	[ "\nThe funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and\nher mother might be buried together.", "I attended to all the ghastly\nformalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were\nafflicted--or blessed--with something of his own obsequious suavity.", "Even the woman who performe...	[ "We shall\nunscrew the coffin-lid, and shall do our operation: and then replace\nall, so that none know, save we alone.\"", "For answer he put his hand on my shoulder, and said, with infinite\ntenderness:--\n\n\"Friend John, I pity your poor bleeding heart; and I love you the more\nbecause it does so bleed.", "...	[ "And all\nfor what?", "It has always been late in\nthe evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the\nchildren have not been found until early in the following morning.", "For answer he put his hand on my shoulder, and said, with infinite\ntenderness:--\n\n\"Friend John, I pity your poor bleeding...	[ "I know and believe you have a very noble heart, and you are\nJack's friend, and you were hers.", "You shall do what you like.\"", "The Professor cleared his throat a couple of times, as though about to\nspeak, and finally said:--\n\n\"May I ask you something now?\"", "\"Certainly.\"", "\"You know that Mrs....	[ "\nThe funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and\nher mother might be buried together.", "I attended to all the ghastly\nformalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were\nafflicted--or blessed--with something of his own obsequious suavity.", "Even the woman who performe...	ing, I saw one of the maids pass silently along the passage--she had her back towards me, so did not see me--and go into the room where Lucy lay. The sight touched me. Devotion is so rare, and we are so grateful to those who show it unasked to those we love. Here was a poor girl putting aside the terrors which she natu...	The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and her mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted--or blessed--with something of his own obsequious suavity. Even the woman who performed the last offices ...	couple of times, as though about to speak, and finally said:-- "May I ask you something now?" "Certainly." "You know that Mrs. Westenra left you all her property?" "No, poor dear; I never thought of it." "And as it is all yours, you have a right to deal with it as you will. I want you to give me permission to read al...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/41.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_2_part_4.txt	Dracula.chapter 14	chapter 14	null	{"name": "Chapter 14", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-11-15", "summary": "Includes the September 23rd and September 24th entries of Mina Harker's journal; a letter from Van Helsing to Mina Harker, dated September 24th; a telegram from Mr...	_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible things; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the responsibility of his new position. I knew he would be true to himself, and now how proud I am to see my ...	5,963	Chapter 14	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-11-15	Includes the September 23rd and September 24th entries of Mina Harker's journal; a letter from Van Helsing to Mina Harker, dated September 24th; a telegram from Mrs. Harker to Van Helsing, dated September 25th; letters between Van Helsing and Mrs. Harker, dated September 25th; the September 26th entry of Jonathan Harke...	Note how little conflict there is between the heroes of the novel. All are united by virtue, pledges of friendship, and love. With the group on its way to being assembled into a full team, and with Jonathan's journal in the hands of Van Helsing, the novel has reached a major turning point. Van Helsing now knows more ab...	333	305	[ "\n_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night.", "I am so glad that\nhe has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible\nthings; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the\nresponsibility of his new position.", "I knew he would be true to himself,\nand now how p...	[ "I remember how on our\nwedding-day he said: \"Unless some solemn duty come upon me to go back to\nthe bitter hours, asleep or awake, mad or sane.\"", "I shall say nothing of Jonathan's journal unless he asks me.", "Oh, what a strange meeting, and how it\nall makes my head whirl round!", "Again I assented.", ...	[ "It may be worse for others; but for him and you there is no\ndread.", "\"A shock, and after brain fever so soon!", "Quincey Morris is with\nhim, and that is much of a help, for he himself is a bubbling well of\ngood spirits.", "He will be away all day till late, for he said he could not lunch\nat home.", "...	[ "\"I promise,\" he said as I gave him the papers; \"I shall in the morning,\nso soon as I can, come to see you and your husband, if I may.\"", "\"Jonathan will be here at half-past eleven, and you must come to lunch\nwith us and see him then; you could catch the quick 3:34 train, which\nwill leave you at Paddingt...	[ "\n_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night.", "I am so glad that\nhe has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible\nthings; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the\nresponsibility of his new position.", "I knew he would be true to himself,\nand now how p...	usted myself. Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours." He seemed pleased, and laughed as he said:-- "So! You are physiognomist. I learn more here with each hour. I am with so much pleasure coming to you to breakfast; and, oh, sir, you ...	_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible things; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the responsibility of his new position. I knew he would be true to himself, and now how proud I am to see my ...	manner as well as his words when he said:-- "Oh, my dear, if you only know how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it be. I have tried to keep an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life t...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/42.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_2_part_5.txt	Dracula.chapter 15	chapter 15	null	{"name": "Chapter 15", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-11-15", "summary": "Includes the September 26th and September 27th entries of Seward's diary; a note left by Van Helsing for Seward , dated September 27th; and the September 28th and ...	For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to him:-- "Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?" He raised his head and looked at me, and somehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. "Would I were!" he said. "Madness were...	5,398	Chapter 15	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-11-15	Includes the September 26th and September 27th entries of Seward's diary; a note left by Van Helsing for Seward , dated September 27th; and the September 28th and September 29th entries of Seward's diary. Seward is doubtful of Van Helsing's theory, but he agrees to accompany him to examine one of the child victims. The...	Even after all that he has seen Seward finds it difficult to accept Van Helsing's theory. He wonders if Van Helsing has gone mad. Part of the horror of the vampire is that it leads one to question his sanity and the sanity of others: the threat of madness is one that seems to affect Seward heavily and constantly. He qu...	307	142	[ "\nFor a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life\nstruck Lucy on the face.", "I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to\nhim:--\n\n\"Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?\"", "He raised his head and looked at me, and\nsomehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once.", "\"Would I ...	[ "They were smaller,\nand the edges looked fresher; that was all.", "When Van Helsing saw how dark it\nwas, he said:--\n\n\"There is no hurry.", "With some little difficulty--for\nit was very dark, and the whole place seemed so strange to us--we found\nthe Westenra tomb.", "he said, \"we must have more proof."...	[ "The Professor took the key, opened the creaky door,\nand standing back, politely, but quite unconsciously, motioned me to\nprecede him.", "\"Not for\nthe wide world will I consent to any mutilation of her dead body.", "Yet\nhe never can be sure; and that is the worst of all.", "It was\nwithout a scratch or s...	[ "\"See,\" he went on, \"see, they are even sharper than before.", "With this\nand this\"--and he touched one of the canine teeth and that below\nit--\"the little children can be bitten.", "Are you of belief now, friend\nJohn?\"", "Once more, argumentative hostility woke within me.", "I _could_ not\naccept s...	[ "\nFor a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life\nstruck Lucy on the face.", "I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to\nhim:--\n\n\"Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?\"", "He raised his head and looked at me, and\nsomehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once.", "\"Would I ...	; and in many ways the Un-Dead are strong. He have always the strength in his hand of twenty men; even we four who gave our strength to Miss Lucy it also is all to him. Besides, he can summon his wolf and I know not what. So if it be that he come thither on this night he shall find me; but none other shall--until it be...	For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to him:-- "Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?" He raised his head and looked at me, and somehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. "Would I were!" he said. "Madness were...	wed the white teeth. "See," he went on, "see, they are even sharper than before. With this and this"--and he touched one of the canine teeth and that below it--"the little children can be bitten. Are you of belief now, friend John?" Once more, argumentative hostility woke within me. I _could_ not accept such an overwhe...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/43.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_3_part_1.txt	Dracula.chapter 16	chapter 16	null	{"name": "Chapter 16", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-16-20", "summary": "Includes the September 29th morning and night entries of Dr. Seward's diary. That night, Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, Arthur, and Quincey Morris go to Lucy's tomb. As ...	It was just a quarter before twelve o'clock when we got into the churchyard over the low wall. The night was dark with occasional gleams of moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across the sky. We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly in front as he led the way. When we had...	4,222	Chapter 16	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-16-20	Includes the September 29th morning and night entries of Dr. Seward's diary. That night, Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, Arthur, and Quincey Morris go to Lucy's tomb. As Van Helsing promised, it is empty. Van Helsing seals the Westenra vault with communion wafers and the four men hide and wait. After a while, a figure in whit...	The death scene of the vampire Lucy resonates with overtones of penetration and sexuality. Until this moment, Lucy has only been penetrated by Draculathe staking is, in a way, her fiance's first chance at his nuptial rights. Note that Arthur does the deed, even though it might make more sense for a more detached man to...	324	224	[ "\n\nIt was just a quarter before twelve o'clock when we got into the\nchurchyard over the low wall.", "The night was dark with occasional gleams\nof moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across\nthe sky.", "We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly\nin front as he led...	[ "\"It was.\"", "The coffin was empty!", "Lucy's eyes in form\nand colour; but Lucy's eyes unclean and full of hell-fire, instead of\nthe pure, gentle orbs we knew.", "There\nwas a cold-bloodedness in the act which wrung a groan from Arthur; when\nshe advanced to him with outstretched arms and a wanton smile h...	[ "\"Go on,\" said Arthur hoarsely.", "\"It was.\"", "The Professor unlocked the door, and seeing a natural\nhesitation amongst us for various reasons, solved the difficulty by\nentering first himself.", "It was now near enough for us to see\nclearly, and the moonlight still held.", "When we did, however, a m...	[ "Van Helsing broke the silence by asking Arthur:--\n\n\"Answer me, oh my friend!", "Am I to proceed in my work?\"", "Arthur threw himself on his knees, and hid his face in his hands, as he\nanswered:--\n\n\"Do as you will, friend; do as you will.", "There can be no horror like\nthis ever any more;\" and he gr...	[ "\n\nIt was just a quarter before twelve o'clock when we got into the\nchurchyard over the low wall.", "The night was dark with occasional gleams\nof moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across\nthe sky.", "We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly\nin front as he led...	all dear to us, for they marked her truth to what we knew. One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever. Van Helsing came and laid his hand on Arthur's shoulder, and said to him:-- "And now, Arthu...	It was just a quarter before twelve o'clock when we got into the churchyard over the low wall. The night was dark with occasional gleams of moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across the sky. We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly in front as he led the way. When we had...	ere is a funeral at noon, so here we shall all come before long after that. The friends of the dead will all be gone by two, and when the sexton lock the gate we shall remain. Then there is more to do; but not like this of to-night. As for this little one, he is not much harm, and by to-morrow night he shall be well. W...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/44.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_3_part_2.txt	Dracula.chapter 17	chapter 17	null	{"name": "Chapter 17", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-16-20", "summary": "Taken from the September 29th entry of Dr. Seward's diary and the September 29th entry of Mina Harker's journal, interspersed; the September 30th entry of Dr, Sewa...	When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram waiting for him:-- "Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.--MINA HARKER." The Professor was delighted. "Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina," he said, "pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must go to your ho...	5,422	Chapter 17	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-16-20	Taken from the September 29th entry of Dr. Seward's diary and the September 29th entry of Mina Harker's journal, interspersed; the September 30th entry of Dr, Seward's diary; the September 29th entry of Jonathan Harker's journal; The Harkers come to stay with Seward at the asylum. Mina listens to Seward's diary and tra...	Mina's fascination with the phonograph reflects a more general fascination that the novel has with gadgetry. The book is full of the latest inventions: phonographs, shorthand, electric lanterns. Part of the arsenal the group wields against Dracula is this knowledge of scientific method, reason, and the latest invention...	192	226	[ "\n\nWhen we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram\nwaiting for him:--\n\n \"Am coming up by train.", "Jonathan at Whitby.", "Important news.--MINA\n HARKER.\"", "The Professor was delighted.", "\"Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina,\" he said,\n\"pearl among women!", "She arrive, ...	[ "She must go to your\nhouse, friend John.", "\"The fact is,\" he began awkwardly, \"I only keep my diary in it; and as\nit is entirely--almost entirely--about my cases, it may be awkward--that\nis, I mean----\" He stopped, and I tried to help him out of his\nembarrassment:--\n\n\"You helped to attend dear Lucy at...	[ "Seward's Diary._\n\n_29 September._--I was so absorbed in that wonderful diary of Jonathan\nHarker and that other of his wife that I let the time run on without\nthinking.", "I know what sorrows you have\nhad, though I cannot measure the depth of them.", "They looked up the transaction in their\nday-book and l...	[ "How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of\ngood men--even if there _are_ monsters in it.", "Before I left him I\nremembered what Jonathan put in his diary of the Professor's\nperturbation at reading something in an evening paper at the station at\nExeter; so, seeing that Dr. Seward keeps his newspap...	[ "\n\nWhen we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram\nwaiting for him:--\n\n \"Am coming up by train.", "Jonathan at Whitby.", "Important news.--MINA\n HARKER.\"", "The Professor was delighted.", "\"Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina,\" he said,\n\"pearl among women!", "She arrive, ...	There was dust that thick in the place that you might have slep' on it without 'urtin' of yer bones; an' the place was that neglected that yer might 'ave smelled ole Jerusalem in it. But the ole chapel--that took the cike, that did! Me and my mate, we thort we wouldn't never git out quick enough. Lor', I wouldn't take...	When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram waiting for him:-- "Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.--MINA HARKER." The Professor was delighted. "Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina," he said, "pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must go to your hou...	cal order every scrap of evidence they have. Harker has got the letters between the consignee of the boxes at Whitby and the carriers in London who took charge of them. He is now reading his wife's typescript of my diary. I wonder what they make out of it. Here it is.... Strange that it never struck me that the very ne...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/45.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_3_part_3.txt	Dracula.chapter 18	chapter 18	null	{"name": "Chapter 18", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-16-20", "summary": "Includes the September 30th entry of Seward's diary; the September 30th entry of Mina Harker's journal; and the October 1st entry of Seward's diary. Mina wishes to...	_30 September._--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming and Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript of the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife had made and arranged. Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the carriers' men, of whom Dr. Henne...	6,359	Chapter 18	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-16-20	Includes the September 30th entry of Seward's diary; the September 30th entry of Mina Harker's journal; and the October 1st entry of Seward's diary. Mina wishes to see Renfield, and is persuasive enough so that Seward allows it. Before she enters, Renfield swallows all of his flies and spiders. He treats her with extre...	Van Helsing praises Mina by saying that she is a good combination, a woman's heart and a gifted man's brain. God, according to Van Helsing, fashioned her for a great purpose. Mina's gifts are evidence of the hand of God, and the theme of fate is brought in once again. Mina is the focus of the second half of the novel, ...	434	327	[ "\n\n_30 September._--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming\nand Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript\nof the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife\nhad made and arranged.", "Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the\ncarriers' men, o...	[ "It\nis my record of to-day.", "\"I answer for Mina and myself,\" he said.", "\"I don't know; I fancy not, for it flew away into the wood.\"", "Without\nsaying any more he took his seat, and the Professor began to resume his\nstatement:--\n\n\"We must trace each of these boxes; and when we are ready, we must\...	[ "It was quite evident that he feared, or was\njealous of, some interference.", "These do not\nat the first appear much, when the matter is one of life and death--nay\nof more than either life or death.", "But to fail here, is not\nmere life or death.", "I thought it was now\ntime to end the scene, which was b...	[ "He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the\ndevil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar.", "So far, then, we\nhave all we may act upon; and let me tell you that very much of the\nbeliefs are justified by what we have seen in our own so unhappy\nexperience.", "The vampire live on, and canno...	[ "\n\n_30 September._--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming\nand Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript\nof the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife\nhad made and arranged.", "Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the\ncarriers' men, o...	Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams. And, besides, she is young woman and not so long married; there may be other things to think of some time, if not now. You tell me she has wrote...	_30 September._--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming and Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript of the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife had made and arranged. Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the carriers' men, of whom Dr. Henne...	him on the window at Whitby, and as friend John saw him fly from this so near house, and as my friend Quincey saw him at the window of Miss Lucy. He can come in mist which he create--that noble ship's captain proved him of this; but, from what we know, the distance he can make this mist is limited, and it can only be ...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/46.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_3_part_4.txt	Dracula.chapter 19	chapter 19	null	{"name": "Chapter 19", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-16-20", "summary": "Includes the October 1st entries of Jonathan Harker's journal, Dr. Seward's diary, and Mina Harker's journal; as well as the October 2nd entry of Mina Harker's jou...	_1 October, 5 a. m._--I went with the party to the search with an easy mind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am so glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work. Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at all; but now that her work is done, an...	5,301	Chapter 19	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-16-20	Includes the October 1st entries of Jonathan Harker's journal, Dr. Seward's diary, and Mina Harker's journal; as well as the October 2nd entry of Mina Harker's journal. Armed with crucifixes, garlic, holy communion wafers, electric lamps, knives, and revolvers, the men go to investigate Carfax. The break into the house...	The electric lanterns, a relatively new invention at the time, are combined with the more traditional weapons for fighting vampires. The men also carry revolvers. The synthesis of old and new continues, and helps the men to have some success on their first foray into Dracula's domain. Van Helsing also learns that altho...	360	164	[ "\n_1 October, 5 a. m._--I went with the party to the search with an easy\nmind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well.", "I am\nso glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work.", "Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at\nall; but now that h...	[ "The light from the tiny lamps fell in all sorts of odd forms, as the\nrays crossed each other, or the opacity of our bodies threw great\nshadows.", "I rest on the sofa, so as not to disturb her.", "* * * * *\n\n_1 October, later._--I suppose it was natural that we should have all\novers...	[ "We closed the outer door and barred and locked it, and\nbringing the dogs with us, began our search of the house.", "Every breath\nexhaled by that monster seemed to have clung to the place and\nintensified its loathsomeness.", "So be it that he has gone elsewhere.", "They\nhad been used several times, for on...	[ "She\ncomplained a little of being tired, and I let her rest till later in the\nday.", "We now know of twenty-one boxes having been removed, and if it be\nthat several were taken in any of these removals we may be able to trace\nthem all.", "Such will, of course, immensely simplify our labour, and the\nsooner t...	[ "\n_1 October, 5 a. m._--I went with the party to the search with an easy\nmind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well.", "I am\nso glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work.", "Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at\nall; but now that h...	us I was. Poor dear fellow! I suppose it must have distressed him even more than it did me. They all agreed that it was best that I should not be drawn further into this awful work, and I acquiesced. But to think that he keeps anything from me! And now I am crying like a silly fool, when I _know_ it comes from my husba...	_1 October, 5 a. m._--I went with the party to the search with an easy mind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am so glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work. Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at all; but now that her work is done, an...	night's work. It may be ordained that we have many nights and days to follow, if full of peril; but we must go on, and from no danger shall we shrink." The house was silent when we got back, save for some poor creature who was screaming away in one of the distant wards, and a low, moaning sound from Renfield's room. T...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/47.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_3_part_5.txt	Dracula.chapter 20	chapter 20	null	{"name": "Chapter 20", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-16-20", "summary": "Includes the October 1st and October 2nd entries of Jonathan Harker's journal; the October 1st entry of Seward's diary; a letter from Mitchell, Sons and Candy to L...	_1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I learned, however, from his wife, wh...	5,531	Chapter 20	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-16-20	Includes the October 1st and October 2nd entries of Jonathan Harker's journal; the October 1st entry of Seward's diary; a letter from Mitchell, Sons and Candy to Lord Godalming, dated October 1st; and the October 2nd entry of Seward's diary. Jonathan tracks down the destinations of the missing boxes, which have been de...	While Dracula preys on the neglected Mina, the men plan to assault Dracula at his weak spots. Jonathan is able to use his training to track down the boxes, and all will be wiped away in a day. Renfield's ravings, for the perceptive reader, hint at the role he has had in Mina's victimization. His fear of consuming souls...	229	115	[ "\n_1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal\nGreen, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything.", "The\nvery prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had\nproved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch.", "I\nlearned, howeve...	[ "There ain't a-many such jobs as this 'ere, an' I'm thinkin'\nthat maybe Sam Bloxam could tell ye summut.\"", "The house looked as though it had been long\nuntenanted.", "The gentleman who saw me was particularly suave in manner, but\nuncommunicative in equal proportion.", "Thank God, this will be the last ni...	[ "At Piccadilly Circus I discharged my cab, and walked\nwestward; beyond the Junior Constitutional I came across the house\ndescribed, and was satisfied that this was the next of the lairs\narranged by Dracula.", "He\nwent on with his singing, just as though we had not been present.", "This was a poser to me.", ...	[ "Her\nforehead is puckered up into little wrinkles, as though she thinks even\nin her sleep.", "She is still too pale, but does not look so haggard as she\ndid this morning.", "To-morrow will, I hope, mend all this; she will be\nherself at home in Exeter.", "Oh, but I am sleepy!", "_Dr.", "Seward's Diary....	[ "\n_1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal\nGreen, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything.", "The\nvery prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had\nproved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch.", "I\nlearned, howeve...	to have anything to help to pass the time. Harker is out, following up clues; and so are Lord Godalming and Quincey. Van Helsing sits in my study poring over the record prepared by the Harkers; he seems to think that by accurate knowledge of all details he will light upon some clue. He does not wish to be disturbed in...	_1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I learned, however, from his wife, wh...	e others all gathered round the fire in the study. In the train I had written my diary so far, and simply read it off to them as the best means of letting them get abreast of my own information; when I had finished Van Helsing said:-- "This has been a great day's work, friend Jonathan. Doubtless we are on the track of...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/48.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_4_part_1.txt	Dracula.chapter 21	chapter 21	null	{"name": "Chapter 21", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-21-24", "summary": "The October 3rd entry of Dr. Seward's diary. Renfield's face is bashed and bleeding and his back is broken. The attendant wonders how the straitjacketed Renfield c...	_3 October._--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well as I can remember it, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I can recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must proceed. When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood. Whe...	5,685	Chapter 21	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-21-24	The October 3rd entry of Dr. Seward's diary. Renfield's face is bashed and bleeding and his back is broken. The attendant wonders how the straitjacketed Renfield could have injured himself this way: if his back was broken, he wouldn't have been able to beat his own face against the floor, and if he mangled his face bef...	Now, the reasons for Renfield's request for release are clear, as is the cause of his anxiety about consuming souls. He has provided the invitation Dracula needed to enter the asylum, and Mina has consequently been violated. Dracula's attack against Mina has obvious sexual overtones: he forces her to drink from a wound...	475	178	[ "\n\n_3 October._--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well\nas I can remember it, since last I made an entry.", "Not a detail that I\ncan recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must proceed.", "When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his\nleft side in a glittering...	[ "The attendant who was kneeling beside the body said to me as\nwe turned him over:--\n\n\"I think, sir, his back is broken.", "When Quincey saw the\nattitude and state of the patient, and noted the horrible pool on the\nfloor, he said softly:--\n\n\"My God!", "My brain\nseemed to become cool again, and I realis...	[ "Sure enough sleep must soon have come to me, for I remember no\nmore.", "Van Helsing nodded to him as he whispered to me unconsciously:--\n\n\"The _Acherontia Aitetropos of the Sphinges_--what you call the\n'Death's-head Moth'?\"", "I\nwent over and opened it and found in the corridor without, Arthur and\nQuin...	[ "Van Helsing said solemnly, \"You are always right; but this is life and\ndeath.", "All chambers are alike to the doctor; and even were they not they\nare all as one to me to-night.", "Friend John, when I turn the handle, if\nthe door does not open, do you put your shoulder down and shove; and you\ntoo, my frie...	[ "\n\n_3 October._--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well\nas I can remember it, since last I made an entry.", "Not a detail that I\ncan recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must proceed.", "When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his\nleft side in a glittering...	ssion became frantic as she spoke; and, he yielding to her, she pulled him down sitting on the bed side, and clung to him fiercely. Van Helsing and I tried to calm them both. The Professor held up his little golden crucifix, and said with wonderful calmness:-- "Do not fear, my dear. We are here; and whilst this is clo...	_3 October._--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well as I can remember it, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I can recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must proceed. When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood. When...	om hands and knees. What I saw appalled me. I felt my hair rise like bristles on the back of my neck, and my heart seemed to stand still. The moonlight was so bright that through the thick yellow blind the room was light enough to see. On the bed beside the window lay Jonathan Harker, his face flushed and breathing hea...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/49.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_4_part_2.txt	Dracula.chapter 22	chapter 22	null	{"name": "Chapter 22", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-21-24", "summary": "From Jonathan Harker's journal, the October 3rd entry. The group plans their attack. All of the houses must be raided in one day, with all of the boxes sterilized ...	_3 October._--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It is now six o'clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and take something to eat; for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are agreed that if we do not eat we cannot work our best. Our best will be, God knows, required to-day. I must keep w...	5,058	Chapter 22	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-21-24	From Jonathan Harker's journal, the October 3rd entry. The group plans their attack. All of the houses must be raided in one day, with all of the boxes sterilized and made unfit for Dracula's habitation. First, they will raid and destroy the lair at Carfax. Then, all of the men should go to the house in Picadilly, wher...	The mark on Mina's forehead drives home the urgency of their quest. Mina will grow more and more like a vampire with time, unless the men find Dracula and destroy him. The battle will be not just for Mina's life, but for her soul. The group has great success on this day, sterilizing all but one of the boxes, but the mi...	185	73	[ "\n\n_3 October._--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary.", "It\nis now six o'clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and\ntake something to eat; for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are agreed\nthat if we do not eat we cannot work our best.", "Our best will be, God\nknows, required ...	[ "The end!", "You must not die by any hand; but least of all by your own.", "We shall not go\nso early that the policemen who have then little to think of, shall deem\nit strange; but we shall go after ten o'clock, when there are many\nabout, and such things would be done were we indeed owners of the\nhouse.\"",...	[ "The man touched his hat, took his bag, put on his\ncoat and departed; not a soul took the slightest notice of the whole\ntransaction.", "Now let me guard\nyourself.", "But you are a\nsolicitor and the Incorporated Law Society might tell you that you\nshould have known better.\"", "All were covered up in thin...	[ "When we came to the discussion of the sequence of our efforts and of the\ndisposition of our forces, there were new sources of doubt.", "It was\nfinally agreed that before starting for Piccadilly we should destroy the\nCount's lair close at hand.", "In case he should find it out too soon, we\nshould thus be st...	[ "\n\n_3 October._--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary.", "It\nis now six o'clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and\ntake something to eat; for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are agreed\nthat if we do not eat we cannot work our best.", "Our best will be, God\nknows, required ...	because it has been holy. Thus we defeat him with his own weapon, for we make it more holy still. It was sanctified to such use of man, now we sanctify it to God." As he spoke he took from his bag a screwdriver and a wrench, and very soon the top of one of the cases was thrown open. The earth smelled musty and close; b...	_3 October._--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It is now six o'clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and take something to eat; for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are agreed that if we do not eat we cannot work our best. Our best will be, God knows, required to-day. I must keep w...	the two doctors and I should remain there, whilst Lord Godalming and Quincey found the lairs at Walworth and Mile End and destroyed them. It was possible, if not likely, the Professor urged, that the Count might appear in Piccadilly during the day, and that if so we might be able to cope with him then and there. At any...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/50.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_4_part_3.txt	Dracula.chapter 23	chapter 23	null	{"name": "Chapter 23", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-21-24", "summary": "Includes the October 3rd entry of Dr. Seward's diary; and the October 3rd/4th and October 4th entries of Jonathan Harker's journal. While waiting for Quincey and A...	_3 October._--The time seemed terrible long whilst we were waiting for the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep our minds active by using them all the time. I could see his beneficent purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker. The poor fellow is overwhelmed...	5,271	Chapter 23	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-21-24	Includes the October 3rd entry of Dr. Seward's diary; and the October 3rd/4th and October 4th entries of Jonathan Harker's journal. While waiting for Quincey and Arthur to return, Van Helsing tries to use wise words and compassionate advice to sooth an increasingly angry and wild Harker. The three men receive an ugent ...	Dracula's escape shows that he is still formidable and cunning, even during the hours of daylight. Without his powers, he is still able to escape from a room of armed men. But his flight shows also that he is afraid; he boards a ship because he is being hunted and London is no longer safe for him. Jonathan Harker is a ...	405	350	[ "\n\n_3 October._--The time seemed terrible long whilst we were waiting for\nthe coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris.", "The Professor tried to keep\nour minds active by using them all the time.", "I could see his beneficent\npurpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker.", "The p...	[ "Oh, my poor darling!\"", "\"Jonathan,\" she said, and the word sounded like music on her lips it was\nso full of love and tenderness, \"Jonathan dear, and you all my true,\ntrue friends, I want you to bear something in mind through all this\ndreadful time.", "She did not flinch from the pain which I knew she\n...	[ "God be\nthanked that we have once again a clue, though whither it may lead us we\nknow not.", "go back to bed; it is all right.", "As he spoke he put the money remaining into his pocket; took\nthe title-deeds in the bundle as Harker had left them, and swept the\nremaining things into the open fireplace, where ...	[ "It was, perhaps, the mere animal heat of food to hungry\npeople--for none of us had eaten anything since breakfast--or the sense\nof companionship may have helped us; but anyhow we were all less\nmiserable, and saw the morrow as not altogether without hope.", "True to\nour promise, we told Mrs. Harker everything...	[ "\n\n_3 October._--The time seemed terrible long whilst we were waiting for\nthe coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris.", "The Professor tried to keep\nour minds active by using them all the time.", "I could see his beneficent\npurpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker.", "The p...	to ground them in. She has not been so calm, within my seeing, since the sunset. Then, for a while, there came over her face a repose which was like spring after the blasts of March. I thought at the time that it was the softness of the red sunset on her face, but somehow now I think it has a deeper meaning. I am not s...	_3 October._--The time seemed terrible long whilst we were waiting for the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep our minds active by using them all the time. I could see his beneficent purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker. The poor fellow is overwhelmed...	w was quite broken down; now and again he gave a low groan which he could not suppress--he was thinking of his wife. With sad hearts we came back to my house, where we found Mrs. Harker waiting us, with an appearance of cheerfulness which did honour to her bravery and unselfishness. When she saw our faces, her own beca...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/51.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_4_part_4.txt	Dracula.chapter 24	chapter 24	null	{"name": "Chapter 24", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-21-24", "summary": "Includes a message left for Jonathan Harker by Van Helsing on Dr. Seward's phonograph; the October 4th entry of Jonathan Harker's journal; the October 5th entry of...	This to Jonathan Harker. You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our search--if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we seek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of her to-day. This is your best and most holiest office. This day nothing can find him here. Let me t...	6,020	Chapter 24	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-21-24	Includes a message left for Jonathan Harker by Van Helsing on Dr. Seward's phonograph; the October 4th entry of Jonathan Harker's journal; the October 5th entry of Mina Harker's journal; the October 5th entries of Dr. Seward's diary; and the October 5th and October 6th entries of Jonathan Harker's journal. The group le...	The idea of the East is an interesting and complex theme that plays itself out in different ways throughout the novel. While Van Helsing might be said to use a synthesis of Eastern and Western knowledge, and many of the weapons used to combat the vampire are from Eastern lore, there is still something sinister and dark...	356	682	[ "\nThis to Jonathan Harker.", "You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina.", "We shall go to make our\nsearch--if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we\nseek confirmation only.", "But do you stay and take care of her to-day.", "This is your best and most holiest office.", "This day not...	[ "They say much of blood and bloom, and of\nothers which I comprehend not, though I guess what they mean; but\nnevertheless they tell us all things which we want to know.", "He replied: \"We have the\nbest proof of that: your own evidence, when in the hypnotic trance this\nmorning.\"", "He infect you in such wis...	[ "_Mina Harker's Journal._\n\n_5 October, 5 p. m._--Our meeting for report.", "I said, and for a moment she looked supremely happy; though\nto me all happiness for her was denied by the red scar on her forehead.", "\"I shall not wait for any opportunity,\" said Morris.", "Perhaps ...\n\nMy surmise was not fini...	[ "Even Mrs. Harker seems to lose sight of her\ntrouble for whole spells; it is only now and again, when something\nrecalls it to her mind, that she thinks of her terrible scar.", "We are to\nmeet here in my study in half an hour and decide on our course of\naction.", "I see only one immediate difficulty, I know ...	[ "\nThis to Jonathan Harker.", "You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina.", "We shall go to make our\nsearch--if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we\nseek confirmation only.", "But do you stay and take care of her to-day.", "This is your best and most holiest office.", "This day not...	ter._--At the very outset of our meeting a great personal relief was experienced by both Van Helsing and myself. Mrs. Harker had sent a message by her husband to say that she would not join us at present, as she thought it better that we should be free to discuss our movements without her presence to embarrass us. The ...	This to Jonathan Harker. You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our search--if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we seek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of her to-day. This is your best and most holiest office. This day nothing can find him here. Let me te...	akfast, we are to meet again, and, after making our conclusions known to one another, we shall decide on some definite cause of action. * * * * * I feel a wonderful peace and rest to-night. It is as if some haunting presence were removed from me. Perhaps ... My surmise was not finished, could ...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/52.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_5_part_1.txt	Dracula.chapter 25	chapter 25	null	{"name": "Chapter 25", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-25-27", "summary": "Includes the October 11th entry of Dr. Seward's diary; the October 15th, October 16th, October 17th, and October 24th entries of Jonathan Harker's journal; telegra...	_11 October, Evening._--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he says he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept. I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs. Harker a little before the time of sunset. We have of late come to understand that sunrise and sunset a...	6,050	Chapter 25	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-25-27	Includes the October 11th entry of Dr. Seward's diary; the October 15th, October 16th, October 17th, and October 24th entries of Jonathan Harker's journal; telegram from Rufus Smith of Lloyd's in London to Lord Godalming, dated October 24th; the October 25th, 26th, and 27th entries of Dr. Seward's diary; telegram from ...	Although the Count is able to elude them at Varna, he makes a critical error when he cuts himself off from Mina. He assumes that he is safe in his castle, and he does not understand that Van Helsing's hypnotism, combined with Mina's connection to the vampire, will give Dracula's enemies a critical edge over him. Van He...	319	171	[ "\n_11 October, Evening._--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he\nsays he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept.", "I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs.\nHarker a little before the time of sunset.", "We have of late come to\nunderstand that su...	[ "I followed, myself.", "He seems to have power at\nthese particular moments to simply will, and her thoughts obey him.", "Canvas and cordage strain and masts and yards creak.", "If, then, we can come on board after sunrise, he is at our mercy;\nfor we can open the box and make sure of him, as we did of poor L...	[ "A very few\nminutes, however, gave her complete control of herself; then, motioning\nher husband to sit beside her on the sofa where she was half reclining,\nshe made the rest of us bring chairs up close.", "_Dr.", "Just as there are elements which rest,\nyet when in nature's course they move on their way and ...	[ "She was breathing naturally and looked so\nwell and peaceful that we agreed that the sleep was better for her than\nanything else.", "Poor girl, she has so much to forget that it is no wonder\nthat sleep, if it brings oblivion to her, does her good.", "* * * * *\n\n_Later._--Our opinion...	[ "\n_11 October, Evening._--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he\nsays he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept.", "I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs.\nHarker a little before the time of sunset.", "We have of late come to\nunderstand that su...	t know, though Jonathan does and so does Dr. Van Helsing--that I am the train fiend. At home in Exeter I always used to make up the time-tables, so as to be helpful to my husband. I found it so useful sometimes, that I always make a study of the time-tables now. I knew that if anything were to take us to Castle Dracula...	_11 October, Evening._--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he says he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept. I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs. Harker a little before the time of sunset. We have of late come to understand that sunrise and sunset ar...	n before then, we are all about to retire early. We shall get up at one o'clock, so as to be ready. * * * * * _25 October, Noon_.--No news yet of the ship's arrival. Mrs. Harker's hypnotic report this morning was the same as usual, so it is possible that we may get news at any moment. We men ar...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/53.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_5_part_2.txt	Dracula.chapter 26	chapter 26	null	{"name": "Chapter 26", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-25-27", "summary": "Includes the October 29th and October 30th entries of Dr. Seward's diary; the Ocotber 30th entries of Mina Harker's journal; the October 30th entry of Jonathan Har...	_29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last night we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us had done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour, and opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our journey, and for our work when we get to Galatz...	7,004	Chapter 26	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-25-27	Includes the October 29th and October 30th entries of Dr. Seward's diary; the Ocotber 30th entries of Mina Harker's journal; the October 30th entry of Jonathan Harker's journal; the October 30th entries of Mina Harker's journal; Mina Harker's memorandum ; the October 30th , October 31st, November 1st, and November 2nd ...	Dracula must sleep in special soil, sacred to his family. This need is one of his greatest weaknesses. The group is now able to exploit this weakness, using the wealth of Quincey and Arthur to fund their expedition as they hunt the now-helpless Dracula across the Eastern European wilderness. Mina's brains prove vital t...	481	98	[ "\n\n_29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz.", "Last\nnight we all assembled a little before the time of sunset.", "Each of us\nhad done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour,\nand opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our journey, and\nfor our work ...	[ "There is tramping of feet overhead, and ropes and chains are dragged\nalong.", "She opened her eyes, and we\nall started as she said, sweetly and seemingly with the utmost\nunconcern:--\n\n\"Oh, Professor, why ask me to do what you know I can't?", "At first I inclined to slack off sail\nand beat about till the...	[ "We are\ntruly in the hands of God.", "The forces were distributed\nmuch as they had been at Varna, except that Lord Godalming went to the\nVice-Consul, as his rank might serve as an immediate guarantee of some\nsort to the official, we being in extreme hurry.", "The Consul is away, and the\nVice-Consul sick; s...	[ "There is\nalso the instruction to Petrof Skinsky.", "These we must only guess at; but\nthere must have been some letter or message, since Skinsky came to\nHildesheim.", "That, so far, his plans were successful we know.", "The _Czarina Catherine_\nmade a phenomenally quick journey--so much so that Captain Don...	[ "\n\n_29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz.", "Last\nnight we all assembled a little before the time of sunset.", "Each of us\nhad done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour,\nand opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our journey, and\nfor our work ...	erve as an immediate guarantee of some sort to the official, we being in extreme hurry. Jonathan and the two doctors went to the shipping agent to learn particulars of the arrival of the _Czarina Catherine_. * * * * * _Later._--Lord Godalming has returned. The Consul is away, and the Vice-Consu...	_29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last night we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us had done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour, and opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our journey, and for our work when we get to Galatz...	d sole purpose then was to escape. The proof of this, is the letter of instructions sent to Immanuel Hildesheim to clear and take away the box _before sunrise_. There is also the instruction to Petrof Skinsky. These we must only guess at; but there must have been some letter or message, since Skinsky came to Hildesheim...
345	false	gradesaver	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/54.txt	finished_summaries/gradesaver/Dracula/section_5_part_3.txt	Dracula.chapter 27	chapter 27	null	{"name": "Chapter 27", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-25-27", "summary": "Includes the November 1st and November 2nd entries of Mina Harker's journal; a memorandum by Van Helsing, dated November 4th and November 5th; the November 4th ent...	_1 November._--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The horses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go willingly their full stage at best speed. We have now had so many changes and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to think that the journey will be an easy on...	7,123	Chapter 27	https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150649/https://www.gradesaver.com/dracula/study-guide/summary-chapter-25-27	Includes the November 1st and November 2nd entries of Mina Harker's journal; a memorandum by Van Helsing, dated November 4th and November 5th; the November 4th entry of Jonathan Harker's journal; the November 5th entry of Dr. Seward's diary; the November 5th entry of Van Helsing's memorandum; the November 6th entry of ...	As the heroes journey farther into the wilderness, the land of the East itself, rather than Dracula, provides all of the dangers and obstacles. Dangerous rapids, wolves, snow, gypsies, and the three vampire women all combine to make for a treacherous journey. Mina reports at one point that the natives seem simple and s...	641	233	[ "\n_1 November._--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed.", "The\nhorses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go\nwillingly their full stage at best speed.", "We have now had so many\nchanges and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to\nthink that the journe...	[ "* * * * *\n\n_2 November, night._--All day long driving.", "The\nhouses are very few here now, and the Professor says that the last horse\nwe got will have to go on with us, as we may not be able to change.", "Well,\nGod's will be done--whatever it may be, and whithersoever it may lead!...	[ "We have now had so many\nchanges and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to\nthink that the journey will be an easy one.", "One and all were quite unaware of our\npresence.", "Though there might be\ndanger to her body, yet her soul was safe!", "With one impulse\nthe men sank on their kne...	[ "Oh, if only\nMorris and Seward were with us.", "We must only hope!", "If I write no more\nGood-bye, Mina!", "God bless and keep you.", "_Dr.", "Seward's Diary._\n\n_5 November._--With the dawn we saw the body of Szgany before us dashing\naway from the river with their leiter-wagon.", "They surrounded i...	[ "\n_1 November._--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed.", "The\nhorses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go\nwillingly their full stage at best speed.", "We have now had so many\nchanges and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to\nthink that the journe...	own and find Madam Mina still sleep. It is now not far off sunset time, and over the snow the light of the sun flow in big yellow flood, so that we throw great long shadow on where the mountain rise so steep. For we are going up, and up; and all is oh! so wild and rocky, as though it were the end of the world. Then I a...	_1 November._--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The horses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go willingly their full stage at best speed. We have now had so many changes and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to think that the journey will be an easy on...	doors were all open I broke them off the rusty hinges, lest some ill-intent or ill-chance should close them, so that being entered I might not get out. Jonathan's bitter experience served me here. By memory of his diary I found my way to the old chapel, for I knew that here my work lay. The air was oppressive; it seeme...
345	false	shmoop	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/28.txt	finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_0_part_0.txt	Dracula.chapter 1	chapter 1	null	{"name": "Chapter 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-1", "summary": "Jonathan Harker is writing about his journey in his journal . History Snack! \"Shorthand\" is a system of symbols that allows people to take notes rapidly by ha...	_3 May. Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from ...	5,306	Chapter 1	https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-1	Jonathan Harker is writing about his journey in his journal . History Snack! "Shorthand" is a system of symbols that allows people to take notes rapidly by hand. If you're good at it, you can write as fast as a person can speak. In the days before typewriters or recording devices, this was a handy way of recording, alm...	null	871	1	[ "\n_3 May.", "Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at\nVienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an\nhour late.", "Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I\ngot of it from the train and the little I could walk through the\nstreets.", "I fe...	[ "I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived\nlate and would start as near the correct time as possible.", "I was\nnot able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the\nCastle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare\nwith our own Ordnance Survey maps; but I...	[ "It was all very\nridiculous but I did not feel comfortable.", "He went, but immediately returned with\na letter:--\n\n \"My Friend.--Welcome to the Carpathians.", "The\ndriver saw it at the same moment; he at once checked the horses, and,\njumping to the ground, disappeared into the darkness.", "I am goi...	[ "The road was rugged, but still we\nseemed to fly over it with a feverish haste.", "I could not understand then\nwhat the haste meant, but the driver was evidently bent on losing no\ntime in reaching Borgo Prund.", "I was told that this road is in summertime\nexcellent, but that it had not yet been put in order...	[ "\n_3 May.", "Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at\nVienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an\nhour late.", "Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I\ngot of it from the train and the little I could walk through the\nstreets.", "I fe...	dly, so that the driver had to hold them up. Then, amongst a chorus of screams from the peasants and a universal crossing of themselves, a caleche, with four horses, drove up behind us, overtook us, and drew up beside the coach. I could see from the flash of our lamps, as the rays fell on them, that the horses were coa...	_3 May. Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from ...	ep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and pointed crags, till these were themselves lost in the distance, where the snowy peaks rose grandly. Here and there seemed mighty rifts in the mountains, through which, as the sun b...
345	false	shmoop	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/29.txt	finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_1_part_0.txt	Dracula.chapter 2	chapter 2	null	{"name": "Chapter 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-2", "summary": "Harker figures he must have been asleep as they approached the castle. As they pull up to the door, the driver hops down and then helps Harker to climb out. Har...	_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than it really is. I have not yet been...	5,111	Chapter 2	https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-2	Harker figures he must have been asleep as they approached the castle. As they pull up to the door, the driver hops down and then helps Harker to climb out. Harker is startled by the man's incredible strength. The driver jumps back into the coach and drives off again, leaving Harker alone in front of the massive doors ...	null	952	1	[ "\n\n_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully\nawake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place.", "In\nthe gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark\nways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than\nit really is.", ...	[ "He held in his hand an antique silver\nlamp, in which the flame burned without chimney or globe of any kind,\nthrowing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the\nopen door.", "Come freely.", "Come in;\nthe night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest.\"", "\"I must regret that an ...	[ "What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked?", "He made no\nmotion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his\ngesture of welcome had fixed him into stone.", "I drew away, and his hand touched the string of beads which\nheld the crucifix.", "I saw something like them in Ham...	[ "\"Not so,\" he answered.", "\"Well, I know that, did I move and speak in your\nLondon, none there are who would not know me for a stranger.", "That is not\nenough for me.", "Here I am noble; I am _boyar_; the common people know me,\nand I am master.", "But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one; men\nk...	[ "\n\n_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully\nawake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place.", "In\nthe gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark\nways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than\nit really is.", ...	en with my kodak views of it from various points. The house has been added to, but in a very straggling way, and I can only guess at the amount of ground it covers, which must be very great. There are but few houses close at hand, one being a very large house only recently added to and formed into a private lunatic asy...	_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than it really is. I have not yet been...	e words, but yet I know not how to speak them." "Indeed," I said, "you speak excellently." "Not so," he answered. "Well, I know that, did I move and speak in your London, none there are who would not know me for a stranger. That is not enough for me. Here I am noble; I am _boyar_; the common people know me, and I am ma...
345	false	shmoop	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/30.txt	finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_2_part_0.txt	Dracula.chapter 3	chapter 3	null	{"name": "Chapter 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-3", "summary": "Harker realizes that there are no servants at all in the house when he peeps into the bedroom from the sitting room and finds the Count himself making the bed. ...	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 f...	5,442	Chapter 3	https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-3	Harker realizes that there are no servants at all in the house when he peeps into the bedroom from the sitting room and finds the Count himself making the bed. Harker is creeped out to think that it's just the two of them in the castle. He's comforted by the crucifix that the innkeeper's wife gave him, even though he o...	null	803	1	[ "\nWhen 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\nevery window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my\nhelplessness overpowered all other feelings.", "When I look back after a\nfew hours I think I m...	[ "Some\ntime, if it may be, I must examine this matter and try to make up my\nmind about it.", "I wish I could put\ndown all he said exactly as he said it, for to me it was most\nfascinating.", "First, he asked if a man in England might have two solicitors or more.", "I explained all these things to him to the...	[ "I\nam thinking still, and as yet have come to no definite conclusion.", "With a fierce sweep of his arm, he hurled the woman\nfrom him, and then motioned to the others, as though he were beating\nthem back; it was the same imperious gesture that I had seen used to the\nwolves.", "I shall fear to doubt what he ...	[ "There was some sense of freedom in the vast expanse,\ninaccessible though it was to me, as compared with the narrow darkness\nof the courtyard.", "Looking out on this, I felt that I was indeed in\nprison, and I seemed to want a breath of fresh air, though it were of\nthe night.", "I am beginning to feel this n...	[ "\nWhen 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\nevery window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my\nhelplessness overpowered all other feelings.", "When I look back after a\nfew hours I think I m...	oneliness in the place which chilled my heart and made my nerves tremble. Still, it was better than living alone in the rooms which I had come to hate from the presence of the Count, and after trying a little to school my nerves, I found a soft quietude come over me. Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in ol...	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 f...	your own chamber or to these rooms, for your rest will then be safe. But if you be not careful in this respect, then"--He finished his speech in a gruesome way, for he motioned with his hands as if he were washing them. I quite understood; my only doubt was as to whether any dream could be more terrible than the unnat...
345	false	shmoop	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/31.txt	finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_3_part_0.txt	Dracula.chapter 4	chapter 4	null	{"name": "Chapter 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-4", "summary": "Harker woke up in his own bed and immediately started to write it all down in his journal. The Count has asked Harker to write three letters home--one saying th...	I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but could not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, there were certain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by in a manner which was not my habit. My...	5,815	Chapter 4	https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-4	Harker woke up in his own bed and immediately started to write it all down in his journal. The Count has asked Harker to write three letters home--one saying that he's almost done, one saying that he's about to leave, and another saying that he has arrived at Bistritz. Dracula smoothly explains that since the postal se...	null	959	1	[ "\nI awoke in my own bed.", "If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must\nhave carried me here.", "I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but\ncould not arrive at any unquestionable result.", "To be sure, there were\ncertain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by\nin a manner w...	[ "When she saw my face at the window she\nthrew herself forward, and shouted in a voice laden with menace:--\n\n\"Monster, give me my child!\"", "I\nwent whilst my courage was fresh straight to the window on the south\nside, and at once got outside on the narrow ledge of stone which runs\naround the building on th...	[ "Come!\"", "There could be no doubt as to his quest,\nand in my garb, too!", "Will you not cover it again?\"", "I have seen him myself crawl from his\nwindow.", "Good-bye, all!", "This, then, is his new scheme of evil: that he will\nallow others to see me, as they think, so that he may both leave\nevidenc...	[ "Good-bye, Mina, if I fail; good-bye, my faithful friend and\nsecond father; good-bye, all, and last of all Mina!", "* * * * *\n\n_Same day, later._--I have made the effort, and God, helping me, have\ncome safely back to this room.", "I must put down every detail in order.", "I\nwent w...	[ "\nI awoke in my own bed.", "If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must\nhave carried me here.", "I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but\ncould not arrive at any unquestionable result.", "To be sure, there were\ncertain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by\nin a manner w...	I not go to-night?" "Because, dear sir, my coachman and horses are away on a mission." "But I would walk with pleasure. I want to get away at once." He smiled, such a soft, smooth, diabolical smile that I knew there was some trick behind his smoothness. He said:-- "And your baggage?" "I do not care about it. I can sen...	I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but could not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, there were certain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by in a manner which was not my habit. My...	have seen him myself crawl from his window. Why should not I imitate him, and go in by his window? The chances are desperate, but my need is more desperate still. I shall risk it. At the worst it can only be death; and a man's death is not a calf's, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. God help me in my ...
345	false	shmoop	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/32.txt	finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_4_part_0.txt	Dracula.chapter 5	chapter 5	null	{"name": "Chapter 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-5", "summary": "This chapter opens with a letter from Mina Murray to Lucy Westenra, dated May 9. Just as a reminder--May 9 puts us back in time a bit. May 9 is the day after Jo...	"_9 May._ "My dearest Lucy,-- "Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. I have been working very hard l...	3,253	Chapter 5	https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-5	This chapter opens with a letter from Mina Murray to Lucy Westenra, dated May 9. Just as a reminder--May 9 puts us back in time a bit. May 9 is the day after Jonathan Harker cut himself while shaving and discovered that Dracula doesn't reflect in mirrors. Mina writes to Lucy apologizing for not having written sooner, b...	null	677	1	[ "\n\n\"_9 May._\n\n\"My dearest Lucy,--\n\n\"Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed\nwith work.", "The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying.", "I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together\nfreely and build our castles in the air.", "...	[ "He is well, and will be returning in about a week.", "_Letter, Lucy Westenra to Mina Murray_.", "That is slang again, but never mind; Arthur says that every day.", "There, it is all out.", "Bless me in your\nprayers; and, Mina, pray for my happiness.", "It'll be something to keep off the darkness now and...	[ "Well, my dear, number One came just\nbefore lunch.", "I\nam longing to hear all his news.", "\"Ever your loving\n\n\"LUCY.", "\"My dearest Mina,--\n\n\"Thanks, and thanks, and thanks again for your sweet letter.", "To-day I seemed to get\nnearer than ever before to the heart of his mystery.", "And if the...	[ "Well, my dear, number One came just\nbefore lunch.", "I told you of him, Dr. John Seward, the lunatic-asylum\nman, with the strong jaw and the good forehead.", "He was very cool\noutwardly, but was nervous all the same.", "He had evidently been schooling\nhimself as to all sorts of little things, and remembe...	[ "\n\n\"_9 May._\n\n\"My dearest Lucy,--\n\n\"Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed\nwith work.", "The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying.", "I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together\nfreely and build our castles in the air.", "...	n well fancy if you have never tried it. He says that I afford him a curious psychological study, and I humbly think I do. I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore. That is slang again, but never mind; Arthur says that every day. There, it is all ...	"_9 May._ "My dearest Lucy,-- "Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. I have been working very hard l...	can from Texas, and he looks so young and so fresh that it seems almost impossible that he has been to so many places and has had such adventures. I sympathise with poor Desdemona when she had such a dangerous stream poured in her ear, even by a black man. I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man wi...
345	false	shmoop	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/33.txt	finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_5_part_0.txt	Dracula.chapter 6	chapter 6	null	{"name": "Chapter 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-6", "summary": "The chapter opens with Mina's journal, dated July 24, at Whitby . Mina has arrived in Whitby and describes the beautiful scenery of the Yorkshire region. She es...	_24 July. Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in which they have rooms. This is a lovely place. The little river, the Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the harbour. A great viaduct runs across, wit...	5,630	Chapter 6	https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-6	The chapter opens with Mina's journal, dated July 24, at Whitby . Mina has arrived in Whitby and describes the beautiful scenery of the Yorkshire region. She especially likes to walk up above the harbor to an old church where there's a great view and lots of benches and paths in the churchyard among the old graves. She...	null	781	1	[ "\n_24 July.", "Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and\nlovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in\nwhich they have rooms.", "This is a lovely place.", "The little river, the\nEsk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the\nharbour.", "A ...	[ "Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and\nlovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in\nwhich they have rooms.", "He hobbled away, and I could see him hurrying, as well as he could, down\nthe steps.", "I think they must originally\nhave had something to do with the abbey...	[ "I said nothing, but went and told the keeper to report to me if\nthere were anything odd about him during the day.", "Ye see, I can't get out o' the habit of caffin' about it all at\nonce; the chafts will wag as they be used to.", "ha!", "What would have been his later\nsteps?", "Really, Mr. Swales, I don'...	[ "His redeeming quality is a love of\nanimals, though, indeed, he has such curious turns in it that I\nsometimes imagine he is only abnormally cruel.", "His pets are of odd\nsorts.", "Just now his hobby is catching flies.", "He has at present such a\nquantity that I have had myself to expostulate.", "To my a...	[ "\n_24 July.", "Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and\nlovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in\nwhich they have rooms.", "This is a lovely place.", "The little river, the\nEsk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the\nharbour.", "A ...	ause! I must not think too much of this, or I may be tempted; a good cause might turn the scale with me, for may not I too be of an exceptional brain, congenitally? How well the man reasoned; lunatics always do within their own scope. I wonder at how many lives he values a man, or if at only one. He has closed the acco...	_24 July. Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in which they have rooms. This is a lovely place. The little river, the Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the harbour. A great viaduct runs across, wit...	ch curious turns in it that I sometimes imagine he is only abnormally cruel. His pets are of odd sorts. Just now his hobby is catching flies. He has at present such a quantity that I have had myself to expostulate. To my astonishment, he did not break out into a fury, as I expected, but took the matter in simple seriou...
345	false	shmoop	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/34.txt	finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_6_part_0.txt	Dracula.chapter 7	chapter 7	null	{"name": "Chapter 7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-7", "summary": "The chapter opens with a newspaper article that Mina has pasted in her journal about the great storm of August 8. The newspaper describes the storm very vividly...	From a Correspondent. _Whitby_. One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been experienced here, with results both strange and unique. The weather had been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of August. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the great body of h...	5,877	Chapter 7	https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-7	The chapter opens with a newspaper article that Mina has pasted in her journal about the great storm of August 8. The newspaper describes the storm very vividly--the tone doesn't sound much like a modern newspaper. As the storm was getting really rough, lots of townspeople gathered on the hill above town to watch the s...	null	520	1	[ "\nFrom a Correspondent.", "_Whitby_.", "One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been\nexperienced here, with results both strange and unique.", "The weather had\nbeen somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of\nAugust.", "Saturday evening was as fine as was ever kno...	[ "The only sail noticeable was a foreign\nschooner with all sails set, which was seemingly going westwards.", "Between her and the\nport lay the great flat reef on which so many good ships have from time\nto time suffered, and, with the wind blowing from its present quarter,\nit would be quite impossible that she ...	[ "_Varna to Whitby._\n\n_Written 18 July, things so strange happening, that I shall keep\naccurate note henceforth till we land._\n\n * * * * \n\nOn 6 July we finished taking in cargo, silver sand and boxes of earth.", " * * * *\n\n_30 July_.--Last night.", ...	[ "Mate cheerful again, and all on good terms.", "Praised men for work in bad\nweather.", "Passed Gibralter and out through Straits.", "All well.", "* * * * *\n\n_24 July_.--There seems some doom over this ship.", "Already a hand short,\nand entering on the Bay of Biscay with wild we...	[ "\nFrom a Correspondent.", "_Whitby_.", "One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been\nexperienced here, with results both strange and unique.", "The weather had\nbeen somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of\nAugust.", "Saturday evening was as fine as was ever kno...	ight_.--Woke up from few minutes' sleep by hearing a cry, seemingly outside my port. Could see nothing in fog. Rushed on deck, and ran against mate. Tells me heard cry and ran, but no sign of man on watch. One more gone. Lord, help us! Mate says we must be past Straits of Dover, as in a moment of fog lifting he saw Nor...	From a Correspondent. _Whitby_. One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been experienced here, with results both strange and unique. The weather had been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of August. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the great body of hol...	ay produced at the inquest; and a more strange narrative than the two between them unfold it has not been my lot to come across. As there is no motive for concealment, I am permitted to use them, and accordingly send you a rescript, simply omitting technical details of seamanship and supercargo. It almost seems as thou...
345	false	shmoop	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/35.txt	finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_7_part_0.txt	Dracula.chapter 8	chapter 8	null	{"name": "Chapter 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-8", "summary": "After watching the funeral procession, Mina and Lucy go for a long walk. They're tired when they get back, and Mina writes briefly in her journal about their wa...	_Same day, 11 o'clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I had made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night. We had a lovely walk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some dear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse, and frightened the wits out of...	6,093	Chapter 8	https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-8	After watching the funeral procession, Mina and Lucy go for a long walk. They're tired when they get back, and Mina writes briefly in her journal about their walk while Lucy falls right to sleep. Mina remarks how pretty Lucy looks when she sleeps, and then goes to bed herself. Mina wakes up to realize that Lucy's not i...	null	878	1	[ "\n\n_Same day, 11 o'clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired!", "If it were not that I\nhad made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night.", "We had a lovely\nwalk.", "Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some\ndear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse,\nand ...	[ "The bed\nwas empty.", "Dressing-gown and dress were both in their places.", "When I got almost\nto the top I could see the seat and the white figure, for I was now\nclose enough to distinguish it even through the spells of shadow.", "I feared to wake her all at once, so, in order to\nhave my hands free that ...	[ "The bed\nwas empty.", "When I got almost\nto the top I could see the seat and the white figure, for I was now\nclose enough to distinguish it even through the spells of shadow.", "* * * * *\n\n_17 August._--No diary for two whole days.", "The house is at present empty,\nbut enclosed p...	[ "She has not told Lucy, and made me promise secrecy;\nher doctor told her that within a few months, at most, she must die, for\nher heart is weakening.", "At any time, even now, a sudden shock would be\nalmost sure to kill her.", "Ah, we were wise to keep from her the affair of\nthe dreadful night of Lucy's sle...	[ "\n\n_Same day, 11 o'clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired!", "If it were not that I\nhad made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night.", "We had a lovely\nwalk.", "Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some\ndear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse,\nand ...	ing, of _that_ night, and that it was here, on this very seat, I found her asleep. As she told me she tapped playfully with the heel of her boot on the stone slab and said:-- "My poor little feet didn't make much noise then! I daresay poor old Mr. Swales would have told me that it was because I didn't want to wake up ...	_Same day, 11 o'clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I had made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night. We had a lovely walk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some dear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse, and frightened the wits out of...	ind out what it is. * * * * * _15 August._--Rose later than usual. Lucy was languid and tired, and slept on after we had been called. We had a happy surprise at breakfast. Arthur's father is better, and wants the marriage to come off soon. Lucy is full of quiet joy, and her mother is glad and s...
345	false	shmoop	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/36.txt	finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_8_part_0.txt	Dracula.chapter 9	chapter 9	null	{"name": "Chapter 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-9", "summary": "The chapter opens with a letter from \"Mina Harker\" to Lucy, dated August 24 in Budapest. Since Mina's last name has changed, she has clearly married Jonathan ...	"My dearest Lucy,-- "I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here. I feel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except that I knew I was coming t...	5,717	Chapter 9	https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-9	The chapter opens with a letter from "Mina Harker" to Lucy, dated August 24 in Budapest. Since Mina's last name has changed, she has clearly married Jonathan already. She tells Lucy that she was shocked when she first arrived at how bad Jonathan was--the nuns tell her that he'd gone through some kind of shock that brou...	null	662	1	[ "\n\"My dearest Lucy,--\n\n\"I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we\nparted at the railway station at Whitby.", "Well, my dear, I got to Hull\nall right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here.", "I\nfeel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except tha...	[ "We have such\nwalks and drives, and rides, and rowing, and tennis, and fishing\ntogether; and I love him more than ever.", "My face is ghastly pale, and my throat pains\nme.", "I am\nalmost distracted when I think of her; to look at her gives me a pang.", "Am writing.", "Wire me if necessary.\"", "_Lette...	[ "Arthur says I am getting\nfat.", "I cannot quite understand it.", "Tell him what I think, if you can guess it, if you will.", "I saw that amongst them was his note-book, and was going to ask him to\nlet me look at it--for I knew then that I might find some clue to his\ntrouble--but I suppose he must have see...	[ "I shall come in for tea, and we can go away together; I\nam filled with anxiety, and want to consult with you alone as soon as I\ncan after you have seen her.", "Do not fail!", "\"ARTHUR.\"", "_Telegram, Arthur Holmwood to Seward._\n\n\"_1 September._\n\n\"Am summoned to see my father, who is worse.", "Am ...	[ "\n\"My dearest Lucy,--\n\n\"I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we\nparted at the railway station at Whitby.", "Well, my dear, I got to Hull\nall right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here.", "I\nfeel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except tha...	Lucy's discretion, her mother was lunching out, so that we were alone with her. Van Helsing made a very careful examination of the patient. He is to report to me, and I shall advise you, for of course I was not present all the time. He is, I fear, much concerned, but says he must think. When I told him of our friendshi...	"My dearest Lucy,-- "I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here. I feel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except that I knew I was coming t...	nxiety, and want to consult with you alone as soon as I can after you have seen her. Do not fail! "ARTHUR." _Telegram, Arthur Holmwood to Seward._ "_1 September._ "Am summoned to see my father, who is worse. Am writing. Write me fully by to-night's post to Ring. Wire me if necessary." _Letter from Dr. Seward to Arthu...
345	false	shmoop	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/37.txt	finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_9_part_0.txt	Dracula.chapter 10	chapter 10	null	{"name": "Chapter 10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-10", "summary": "Seward writes to Arthur Holmwood to tell him that Lucy isn't so good. He disguises just how bad she is, though, because he knows that Arthur is with his sick ...	"_6 September._ "My dear Art,-- "My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit. There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs. Westenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me professionally about her. I took advantage of the opportunity, and told her that...	5,513	Chapter 10	https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-10	Seward writes to Arthur Holmwood to tell him that Lucy isn't so good. He disguises just how bad she is, though, because he knows that Arthur is with his sick father and can't very well leave him. Van Helsing arrives and examines Lucy again. He has some idea of what's wrong with her, but he won't tell Seward yet. Lucy i...	null	574	1	[ "\n\"_6 September._\n\n\"My dear Art,--\n\n\"My news to-day is not so good.", "Lucy this morning had gone back a bit.", "There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs.\nWestenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me\nprofessionally about her.", "I took advantage of the ...	[ "You and I shall keep as yet what we know here, and here.\"", "I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises.", "Just over the external jugular vein there were two\npunctures, not large, but not wholesome-looking.", "She never stirred, but slept on and on\nin a deep, tranquil, life-giving, h...	[ "\"What do you make of it?\"", "Friend John, help to me!\"", "I dressed the wound and took his\narm to bring him away, when Van Helsing spoke without turning round--the\nman seems to have eyes in the back of his head:--\n\n\"The brave lover, I think, deserve another kiss, which he shall have\npresently.\"", "...	[ "Seward's Diary--continued._\n\n_8 September._--I sat up all night with Lucy.", "The opiate worked itself\noff towards dusk, and she waked naturally; she looked a different being\nfrom what she had been before the operation.", "Her spirits even were good,\nand she was full of a happy vivacity, but I could see e...	[ "\n\"_6 September._\n\n\"My dear Art,--\n\n\"My news to-day is not so good.", "Lucy this morning had gone back a bit.", "There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs.\nWestenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me\nprofessionally about her.", "I took advantage of the ...	ick!" he said. "Bring the brandy." I flew to the dining-room, and returned with the decanter. He wetted the poor white lips with it, and together we rubbed palm and wrist and heart. He felt her heart, and after a few moments of agonising suspense said:-- "It is not too late. It beats, though but feebly. All our work i...	"_6 September._ "My dear Art,-- "My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit. There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs. Westenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me professionally about her. I took advantage of the opportunity, and told her that...	it up with her she almost pooh-poohed the idea, pointing out her daughter's renewed strength and excellent spirits. I was firm, however, and made preparations for my long vigil. When her maid had prepared her for the night I came in, having in the meantime had supper, and took a seat by the bedside. She did not in any ...
345	false	shmoop	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/38.txt	finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_10_part_0.txt	Dracula.chapter 11	chapter 11	null	{"name": "Chapter 11", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-11", "summary": "Lucy doesn't understand why Van Helsing was so insistent about the garlic flowers, but she still thinks he's just the sweetest old man ever. She actually find...	_12 September._--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr. Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He positively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been right, for I feel comfort from them already. Somehow, I do not dread being alone to-night, and I can go to s...	4,746	Chapter 11	https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-11	Lucy doesn't understand why Van Helsing was so insistent about the garlic flowers, but she still thinks he's just the sweetest old man ever. She actually finds the scent of the flowers to be kind of nice and comforting, and goes to sleep. Dr. Seward and Van Helsing head over to Lucy's house together. Mrs. Westenra, Luc...	null	723	1	[ "\n_12 September._--How good they all are to me.", "I quite love that dear Dr.\nVan Helsing.", "I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers.", "He\npositively frightened me, he was so fierce.", "And yet he must have been\nright, for I feel comfort from them already.", "Somehow, I do not dread\nbein...	[ "I never liked garlic before, but to-night it is delightful!", "_Dr.", "The leaves were turning to all kinds of beautiful colours,\nbut had not yet begun to drop from the trees.", "\"God!", "I shall not even feel the change, for\nlast night Dr. Van Helsing slept in his chair a lot of the time.", "\"All ri...	[ "I was\nthunderstruck, for such a thing as a patient getting of his own accord\ninto the Superintendent's study is almost unknown.", "This one ain't been used to fightin' or even to providin' for\nhisself, and more like he's somewhere round the Park a-'idin' an'\na-shiverin' of, and, if he thinks at all, wonderin...	[ "\"Well, it was a odd thing, but when the animiles see us a-talkin' they\nlay down, and when I went over to Bersicker he let me stroke his ears\nsame as ever.", "That there man kem over, and blessed but if he didn't put\nin his hand and stroke the old wolf's ears too!", "\"'Tyke care,' says I.", "'Bersicker i...	[ "\n_12 September._--How good they all are to me.", "I quite love that dear Dr.\nVan Helsing.", "I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers.", "He\npositively frightened me, he was so fierce.", "And yet he must have been\nright, for I feel comfort from them already.", "Somehow, I do not dread\nbein...	phonograph. _Memorandum left by Lucy Westenra._ _17 September. Night._--I write this and leave it to be seen, so that no one may by any chance get into trouble through me. This is an exact record of what took place to-night. I feel I am dying of weakness, and have barely strength to write, but it must be done if I di...	_12 September._--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr. Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He positively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been right, for I feel comfort from them already. Somehow, I do not dread being alone to-night, and I can go to s...	arn't nothing for them to 'owl at. There warn't no one near, except some one that was evidently a-callin' a dog somewheres out back of the gardings in the Park road. Once or twice I went out to see that all was right, and it was, and then the 'owling stopped. Just before twelve o'clock I just took a look round afore tu...
345	false	shmoop	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/39.txt	finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_11_part_0.txt	Dracula.chapter 12	chapter 12	null	{"name": "Chapter 12", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-12", "summary": "Dr. Seward arrives at the same time as Van Helsing--Seward quickly tells Van Helsing that he didn't get the telegram until a day late, and the two of them rus...	_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early. Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while, finding no response, I knocked and rang a...	6,737	Chapter 12	https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-12	Dr. Seward arrives at the same time as Van Helsing--Seward quickly tells Van Helsing that he didn't get the telegram until a day late, and the two of them rush inside to see what was going on. No one answers the door, so they break in. The servants are all unconscious on the floor and the room smells like laudanum . Th...	null	661	1	[ "\n_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early.", "Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone.", "I knocked gently\nand rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her\nmother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door.", "After a while,\nfinding no respon...	[ "I did not stay to make sure,\nbut returned to Van Helsing.", "The voice came from the sofa across the room, and its tones brought\nrelief and joy to my heart, for they were those of Quincey Morris.", "I told him\nwhere I was going, and he hurried me out, but as I was going said:--\n\n\"When you come back, Jack...	[ "So I went down to Quincey and took him into the breakfast-room, where\nthe blinds were not drawn down, and which was a little more cheerful, or\nrather less cheerless, than the other rooms.", "The maids were still breathing, but more restlessly, and I\nfancied that the narcotic was wearing off.", "She was\nsti...	[ "Whilst still asleep she\ntook the paper from her breast and tore it in two.", "Van Helsing stepped\nover and took the pieces from her.", "All the same, however, she went on\nwith the action of tearing, as though the material were still in her\nhands; finally she lifted her hands and opened them as though scatt...	[ "\n_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early.", "Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone.", "I knocked gently\nand rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her\nmother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door.", "After a while,\nfinding no respon...	etiquette of death which the British woman of the lower classes always rigidly observes. The room was, therefore, dimly dark. It was, however, light enough for our purposes. Van Helsing's sternness was somewhat relieved by a look of perplexity. He was evidently torturing his mind about something, so I waited for an ins...	_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early. Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while, finding no response, I knocked and rang a...	seemed to act as a stimulant; she rallied a little, and spoke to him more brightly than she had done since we arrived. He too pulled himself together, and spoke as cheerily as he could, so that the best was made of everything. It was now nearly one o'clock, and he and Van Helsing are sitting with her. I am to relieve t...
345	false	shmoop	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/40.txt	finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_12_part_0.txt	Dracula.chapter 13	chapter 13	null	{"name": "Chapter 13", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-13", "summary": "Dr. Seward has to arrange a lot of the funeral stuff for both Mrs. Westenra and Lucy. They don't have any other family and Arthur is too distraught to deal wi...	The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and her mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted--or blessed--with something of his own obsequious suavity. Even the woman who performed the last offices ...	6,267	Chapter 13	https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-13	Dr. Seward has to arrange a lot of the funeral stuff for both Mrs. Westenra and Lucy. They don't have any other family and Arthur is too distraught to deal with it. Van Helsing asks permission to go through Lucy's diary and letters from the last few weeks. Arthur doesn't know why Van Helsing wants to, but he agrees any...	null	362	1	[ "\nThe funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and\nher mother might be buried together.", "I attended to all the ghastly\nformalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were\nafflicted--or blessed--with something of his own obsequious suavity.", "Even the woman who performe...	[ "you a surgeon, and so shocked!", "so lonely when I want all help and courage that may be!\"", "And there may be\nmore times when I shall want you to trust when you cannot--and may\nnot--and must not yet understand.", "I know and believe you have a very noble heart, and you are\nJack's friend, and you were he...	[ "how beautiful she was.", "I shall not trouble you\nwith questions till the time comes.\"", "poor\nLucy!", "\"_\n\nWe have just received intelligence that another child, missed last\nnight, was only discovered late in the morning under a furze bush at the\nShooter's Hill side of Hampstead Heath, which is, per...	[ "I know and believe you have a very noble heart, and you are\nJack's friend, and you were hers.", "You shall do what you like.\"", "The Professor cleared his throat a couple of times, as though about to\nspeak, and finally said:--\n\n\"May I ask you something now?\"", "\"Certainly.\"", "\"You know that Mrs....	[ "\nThe funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and\nher mother might be buried together.", "I attended to all the ghastly\nformalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were\nafflicted--or blessed--with something of his own obsequious suavity.", "Even the woman who performe...	ing, I saw one of the maids pass silently along the passage--she had her back towards me, so did not see me--and go into the room where Lucy lay. The sight touched me. Devotion is so rare, and we are so grateful to those who show it unasked to those we love. Here was a poor girl putting aside the terrors which she natu...	The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and her mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted--or blessed--with something of his own obsequious suavity. Even the woman who performed the last offices ...	couple of times, as though about to speak, and finally said:-- "May I ask you something now?" "Certainly." "You know that Mrs. Westenra left you all her property?" "No, poor dear; I never thought of it." "And as it is all yours, you have a right to deal with it as you will. I want you to give me permission to read al...
345	false	shmoop	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/41.txt	finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_13_part_0.txt	Dracula.chapter 14	chapter 14	null	{"name": "Chapter 14", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-14", "summary": "Jonathan isn't sleeping well, and Mina's worried about him. She decides to read his journal from Transylvania. Mina was too freaked out to write in her journa...	_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible things; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the responsibility of his new position. I knew he would be true to himself, and now how proud I am to see my ...	5,963	Chapter 14	https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-14	Jonathan isn't sleeping well, and Mina's worried about him. She decides to read his journal from Transylvania. Mina was too freaked out to write in her journal the night after reading Jonathan's account of Castle Dracula. She knows he's either crazy or has gone through something totally awful. She decides to transcribe...	null	353	1	[ "\n_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night.", "I am so glad that\nhe has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible\nthings; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the\nresponsibility of his new position.", "I knew he would be true to himself,\nand now how p...	[ "I shall get my typewriter\nthis very hour and begin transcribing.", "Of\ncourse it is about Lucy.", "There are darknesses in life, and there are lights;\nyou are one of the lights.", "\"He thought he saw some one who recalled something terrible, something\nwhich led to his brain fever.\"", "And then, too, ...	[ "\"Yours the most faithful,\n\n\"ABRAHAM VAN HELSING.\"", "I suppose I shall\nnever know, for I dare not open the subject to him.... And yet that man\nwe saw yesterday!", "\"Well, I shall tell you.", "Quincey Morris is with\nhim, and that is much of a help, for he himself is a bubbling well of\ngood spirits."...	[ "\"I promise,\" he said as I gave him the papers; \"I shall in the morning,\nso soon as I can, come to see you and your husband, if I may.\"", "\"Jonathan will be here at half-past eleven, and you must come to lunch\nwith us and see him then; you could catch the quick 3:34 train, which\nwill leave you at Paddingt...	[ "\n_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night.", "I am so glad that\nhe has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible\nthings; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the\nresponsibility of his new position.", "I knew he would be true to himself,\nand now how p...	usted myself. Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours." He seemed pleased, and laughed as he said:-- "So! You are physiognomist. I learn more here with each hour. I am with so much pleasure coming to you to breakfast; and, oh, sir, you ...	_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible things; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the responsibility of his new position. I knew he would be true to himself, and now how proud I am to see my ...	manner as well as his words when he said:-- "Oh, my dear, if you only know how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it be. I have tried to keep an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life t...
345	false	shmoop	all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/42.txt	finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_14_part_0.txt	Dracula.chapter 15	chapter 15	null	{"name": "Chapter 15", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-15", "summary": "Dr. Seward is totally blown away that Van Helsing could say something like that about Lucy. Besides, she's dead. Van Helsing says he'll prove it: They'll go s...	For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to him:-- "Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?" He raised his head and looked at me, and somehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. "Would I were!" he said. "Madness were...	5,398	Chapter 15	https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-15	Dr. Seward is totally blown away that Van Helsing could say something like that about Lucy. Besides, she's dead. Van Helsing says he'll prove it: They'll go spend the night in the churchyard. After dinner, they go into the Westenra tomb. Van Helsing pulls out a screwdriver to open the coffin. Lucy's not in it! Dr. Sewa...	null	328	1	[ "\nFor a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life\nstruck Lucy on the face.", "I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to\nhim:--\n\n\"Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?\"", "He raised his head and looked at me, and\nsomehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once.", "\"Would I ...	[ "\nFor a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life\nstruck Lucy on the face.", "We shall tell him nothing, but only that we\nwish to learn.", "As we went further, we met fewer and fewer people, till at\nlast we were somewhat surprised when we met even the patrol of horse\npolice going t...	[ "By good chance we got a\ncab near the \"Spaniards,\" and drove to town.", "It seemed\nto be as much an affront to the dead as it would have been to have\nstripped off her clothing in her sleep whilst living; I actually took\nhold of his hand to stop him.", "\"Oh,\" said the Professor, \"then you are nearer the...	[ "\"See,\" he went on, \"see, they are even sharper than before.", "With this\nand this\"--and he touched one of the canine teeth and that below\nit--\"the little children can be bitten.", "Are you of belief now, friend\nJohn?\"", "Once more, argumentative hostility woke within me.", "I _could_ not\naccept s...	[ "\nFor a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life\nstruck Lucy on the face.", "I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to\nhim:--\n\n\"Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?\"", "He raised his head and looked at me, and\nsomehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once.", "\"Would I ...	; and in many ways the Un-Dead are strong. He have always the strength in his hand of twenty men; even we four who gave our strength to Miss Lucy it also is all to him. Besides, he can summon his wolf and I know not what. So if it be that he come thither on this night he shall find me; but none other shall--until it be...	For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to him:-- "Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?" He raised his head and looked at me, and somehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. "Would I were!" he said. "Madness were...	wed the white teeth. "See," he went on, "see, they are even sharper than before. With this and this"--and he touched one of the canine teeth and that below it--"the little children can be bitten. Are you of belief now, friend John?" Once more, argumentative hostility woke within me. I _could_ not accept such an overwhe...

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