"Whereupon The Captain Tell Him That He Had Better Be Quickwith Bloodfor That His Ship Will Leave The

"Whereupon the captain tell him that he had better be quick—with blood—for that his ship will leave the place—of blood—before the turn of the tide—with blood."

What

Jonathan Harker: [Slashes at Dracula with a kukri knife]

Dracula: Haker is…alive? Harker is vengeful? Harker is after my blood? I am running away. I am shipping my little dirt box and going back to Transylvania to ask how you escaped. I can no longer thrive in this city.

Ffs Mina, give me a little help here.

"Final the captain, more red than ever, and in more tongues tell him that he doesn't want no Frenchmen—with bloom upon them and also with blood—in his ship—with blood on her also. And so, after asking where there might be close at hand a ship where he might purchase ship forms, he departed."

So like. This ship captain thinks Drac is French (as a French person myself, honestly, that's fair). But the rest is just... I can't make sense of it. Bloom? Blood?? Blood on her?? Is her the boat???

Is Drac pretending he's going to book passage on a different ship?

Wtf is happening

As an aside, when people who had already read Dracula said they liked Arthur because he was a dog person the last thing I pictured was him whistling over a pack of *terriers*.

I was prejudiced against Arthur but I think that officially won me over.

"Alas, but that sentence is a puddle; is it not?"

Even Van Helsing can't make sense of his own speech. 🤦

I canNOT be the only one who is CONVINCED Quincey must be played by Jensen Ackles in the next adaptation, right? Just think of him delivering THAT LINE fjjgjfhehdjfjjvjjhgf