CHAPTER IV

JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL

31 May.---This morning when I woke I thought I would provide myself with some paper and envelopes from my bag and keep them in my pocket, so that I might write in case I should get an opportunity, but again a surprise, again a shock!

Every scrap of paper was gone, and with it all my notes, my memoranda, relating to railways and travel, my letter of credit, in fact all that might be useful to me were I once outside the castle. I sat and pondered awhile, and then some thought occurred to me, and I made search of my portmanteau and in the wardrobe where I had placed my clothes.

The suit in which I had travelled was gone, and also my overcoat and rug; I could find no trace of them anywhere. This looked like some new scheme of villainy....

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Not contenting himself with false imprisonment, now we see Dracula committing theft.

Portmanteau is an interesting word. "Port" is, I think, a relatively archaic word meaning "bag" that probably evolved from the even more archaic portmanteau. In some sub-dialects of Australian English, "port rack" is (or was, over 20 years ago when I was in primary school) a term for a rack where school kids would put their schoolbags, but I don't think the term port was much used even for the schoolbag itself.

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