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0 | 27681_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"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 meet.... |
1 | 27681_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"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 compan... |
2 | 27681_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"\"Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove\n 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\nparty, whose approaching footsteps had caught the vigilant ear of the\nIndian, came openly into view. A beaten pa... |
3 | 27681_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"In such a night\n Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew;\n 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\npursuers, caused Heyward to remain fixed, for a few moments, in inactive\nsurprise. Then recollecting the imp... |
4 | 27681_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"\"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\nhithe... |
5 | 27681_chapters_7-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"They do not sleep.\n 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!\nThe gentle ones may keep close, but the Mohicans and I will watch upon\nt... |
6 | 27681_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"\"Be gay securely;\n Dispel, my fair, with smiles, the tim'rous clouds,\n That hang on thy clear brow.\"",
"_Death of Agrippina._",
"The 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 ... |
7 | 27681_chapters_10-11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn\n As much as we this night have overwatched!\"",
"_Midsummer Night's Dream._",
"The 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 the nativ... |
8 | 27681_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"_Clo._--I am gone, sir,\n And anon, sir,\n I'll be with you again.\"",
"_Twelfth Night._",
"The 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 name ... |
9 | 27681_chapters_13-14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"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 towards the dis... |
10 | 27681_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"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._",
"A 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 approac... |
11 | 27681_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"\"_Edg._--Before you fight the battle, ope this letter.\"",
"_King Lear._",
"Major 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,\nappeasing his a... |
12 | 27681_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"Weave we the woof. The thread is spun.\n 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 the conquered were\nst... |
13 | 27681_chapters_18-19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"\"Why, anything:\n An honorable murderer, if you will;\n For naught I did in hate, but all in honor.\"",
"_Othello._",
"The 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 of \"The Massacre... |
14 | 27681_chapters_20-21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"Land of Albania! let me bend mine eyes\n On thee, thou rugged nurse of savage men!\"",
"_Childe Harold._",
"The 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 his low calls... |
15 | 27681_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_\"Bot._--Are we all met?\"",
"_\"Qui._--Pat--pat; and here's a marvellous\n Convenient place for our rehearsal.\"",
"_Midsummer Night's Dream._",
"The reader may better imagine, than we describe, the surprise of\nHeyward. His lurking Indians were suddenly converted into four-footed\nbeasts; his lake into a... |
16 | 27681_chapters_23-24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"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._",
"It is unusual to find an encampment of the natives, li... |
17 | 27681_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_\"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._",
"There was a strange blending of the ridiculous with that which was\nsolemn in this scene. The ... |
18 | 27681_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"_Bot._--Let me play the lion too.\"",
"_Midsummer Night's Dream._",
"Notwithstanding 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 to counte... |
19 | 27681_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"\"_Ant._ I shall remember:\n When Caesar says _Do this_, it is performed.\"",
"_Julius Caesar._",
"The 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, through ... |
20 | 27681_chapters_28-29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"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\nmentioned, and whose present place of encampment was so nigh the\ntemporary village of the Hurons, could assemble about an equal number of\nwarri... |
21 | 27681_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"\"If you deny me, fie upon your law!\n There is no force in the decrees of Venice:\n 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 li... |
22 | 27681_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"_\"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._",
"So long as their enemy and his victim continued in sight, the multitude\nremained motionless as beings charmed to the ... |
23 | 27681_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"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\ncouncil, a... |
24 | 27681_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"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.\n 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 Calm... |
25 | 27681_chapter_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"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 meet.... |
26 | 27681_chapter_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"\"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... |
1 | 27681_chapter_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"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 compan... |
2 | 27681_chapter_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove\n 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\nparty, whose approaching footsteps had caught the vigilant ear of the\nIndian, came openly into view. A beaten pa... |
3 | 27681_chapter_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"In such a night\n Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew;\n 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\npursuers, caused Heyward to remain fixed, for a few moments, in inactive\nsurprise. Then recollecting the imp... |
4 | 27681_chapter_vi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"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\nhithe... |
27 | 27681_chapter_vii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"They do not sleep.\n 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!\nThe gentle ones may keep close, but the Mohicans and I will watch upon\nt... |
28 | 27681_chapter_viii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"\"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 result had kept th... |
6 | 27681_chapter_ix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"Be gay securely;\n Dispel, my fair, with smiles, the tim'rous clouds,\n That hang on thy clear brow.\"",
"_Death of Agrippina._",
"The 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 ... |
29 | 27681_chapter_x | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn\n As much as we this night have overwatched!\"",
"_Midsummer Night's Dream._",
"The 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 the nativ... |
30 | 27681_chapter_xi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"Cursed by my tribe\n If I forgive him.\"",
"_Shylock._",
"The 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 high and precipitous; ... |
8 | 27681_chapter_xii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"_Clo._--I am gone, sir,\n And anon, sir,\n I'll be with you again.\"",
"_Twelfth Night._",
"The 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 name ... |
31 | 27681_chapter_xiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"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 towards the dis... |
32 | 27681_chapter_xiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"_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\ndeeply buried in the forest, each individual was too much interested in\nthe escape to hazard a word even in whispers. The scout resumed his po... |
10 | 27681_chapter_xv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"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._",
"A 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 approac... |
11 | 27681_chapter_xvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"_Edg._--Before you fight the battle, ope this letter.\"",
"_King Lear._",
"Major 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,\nappeasing his a... |
12 | 27681_chapter_xvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"Weave we the woof. The thread is spun.\n 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 the conquered were\nst... |
33 | 27681_chapter_xviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"Why, anything:\n An honorable murderer, if you will;\n For naught I did in hate, but all in honor.\"",
"_Othello._",
"The 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 of \"The Massacre... |
34 | 27681_chapter_xix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"_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._",
"The shades of evening had come to increase the dreariness of the place,\nwhen the p... |
35 | 27681_chapter_xx | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"Land of Albania! let me bend mine eyes\n On thee, thou rugged nurse of savage men!\"",
"_Childe Harold._",
"The 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 his low calls... |
36 | 27681_chapter_xxi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"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\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\ndistrict which... |
15 | 27681_chapter_xxii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_\"Bot._--Are we all met?\"",
"_\"Qui._--Pat--pat; and here's a marvellous\n Convenient place for our rehearsal.\"",
"_Midsummer Night's Dream._",
"The reader may better imagine, than we describe, the surprise of\nHeyward. His lurking Indians were suddenly converted into four-footed\nbeasts; his lake into a... |
37 | 27681_chapter_xxiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"\"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._",
"It is unusual to find an encampment of the natives, li... |
38 | 27681_chapter_xxiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"Thus spoke the sage: the kings without delay\n Dissolve the council, and their chief obey.\"",
"POPE'S _Iliad._",
"A 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,--",
"\"The Hurons ... |
17 | 27681_chapter_xxv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"_\"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._",
"There was a strange blending of the ridiculous with that which was\nsolemn in this scene. The ... |
18 | 27681_chapter_xxvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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'... | [
"\"_Bot._--Let me play the lion too.\"",
"_Midsummer Night's Dream._",
"Notwithstanding 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 to counte... |
19 | 27681_chapter_xxvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"_Ant._ I shall remember:\n When Caesar says _Do this_, it is performed.\"",
"_Julius Caesar._",
"The 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, through ... |
39 | 27681_chapter_xxviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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. ... | [
"\"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\nmentioned, and whose present place of encampment was so nigh the\ntemporary village of the Hurons, could assemble about an equal number of\nwarri... |
40 | 27681_chapter_xxix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"\"The assembly seated, rising o'er the rest,\n Achilles thus the king of men addressed.\"",
"POPE'S _Iliad._",
"Cora 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 of her, n... |
21 | 27681_chapter_xxx | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"If you deny me, fie upon your law!\n There is no force in the decrees of Venice:\n 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 li... |
22 | 27681_chapter_xxxi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_\"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._",
"So long as their enemy and his victim continued in sight, the multitude\nremained motionless as beings charmed to the ... |
23 | 27681_chapter_xxxii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"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\ncouncil, a... |
24 | 27681_chapter_xxxiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"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.\n 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 Calm... |
41 | 345_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_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 feared to go very f... |
42 | 345_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_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. I have not y... |
43 | 345_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"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\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 must have bee... |
44 | 345_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"I 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 which was not my h... |
45 | 345_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"_9 May._",
"\"My dearest Lucy,--",
"\"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 have been wor... |
46 | 345_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_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 great viaduct runs acr... |
47 | 345_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"From 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 known, and the ... |
48 | 345_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_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 frightened the wits... |
49 | 345_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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, ... | [
"\"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 wa... |
50 | 345_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"_6 September._",
"\"My dear Art,--",
"\"My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit.\nThere 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 opportunity,... |
51 | 345_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_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\nbeing alone to-night, and I can... |
52 | 345_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early.\nKeeping 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 response, I knocked an... |
53 | 345_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"The 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.\nEven the woman who performed the last ... |
54 | 345_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_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 proud I am to... |
55 | 345_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"For 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:--",
"\"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 were!\" he\nsai... |
56 | 345_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"It 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 the way. When... |
57 | 345_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram\nwaiting for him:--",
"\"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, but I cannot stay. She must... |
58 | 345_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_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, of whom Dr... |
59 | 345_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_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.\nSomehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at\nall; but now that her work is ... |
60 | 345_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_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, however, from his ... |
61 | 345_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_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 pool of ... |
62 | 345_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_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 to-day. I must... |
63 | 345_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"_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 poor fellow is overw... |
64 | 345_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"This 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 nothing can find him\nher... |
65 | 345_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"_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 sunrise a... |
66 | 345_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"_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 when we get to... |
67 | 345_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"_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 journey will be an... |
41 | 345_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_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 feared to go very f... |
42 | 345_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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 ... | [
"_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. I have not y... |
43 | 345_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"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\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 must have bee... |
44 | 345_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"I 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 which was not my h... |
45 | 345_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"_9 May._",
"\"My dearest Lucy,--",
"\"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 have been wor... |
46 | 345_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_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 great viaduct runs acr... |
47 | 345_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"From 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 known, and the ... |
48 | 345_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_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 frightened the wits... |
49 | 345_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"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 wa... |
50 | 345_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"\"_6 September._",
"\"My dear Art,--",
"\"My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit.\nThere 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 opportunity,... |
51 | 345_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_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\nbeing alone to-night, and I can... |
52 | 345_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early.\nKeeping 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 response, I knocked an... |
53 | 345_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"The 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.\nEven the woman who performed the last ... |
54 | 345_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"_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 proud I am to... |
55 | 345_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | 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... | [
"For 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:--",
"\"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 were!\" he\nsai... |
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