God sends us men when we want them
This implies that a woman would not be up to the job, as well
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A brave man’s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble.
This is the most important part of the passage for your argument, in my opinion; It assumes that a man's place is to protect women, and that a woman's place is to be protected by men.
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A brave man’s blood
Stoker brings up blood and lineage again, possibly as a theme
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There lay the Count, but looking as if his youth had been half renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey
Does the age-reversal effect happen for other vampires?
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Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh
His most obvious features are obscured; This must have been a massive transformation between not having blood and being full of blood.
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It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood.
It's clear from this passage that he is almost at full power, if not at absolute full power.
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I must go back home and think
He wants to be sure of the cause, and research more. It also signals to the reader that there will be a lull before they receive an answer to the mystery
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The disease — for not to be well is a disease —
Again, Van Helsing is hinting that the cause is not a disease in any way, raising the reader's curiosity again.
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And yet there is cause. There is always cause for everything.
Here it's not just Van Helsing saying what they believe in, it's Bram Stoker promising that by the end of the book all of the occurrences will be explained, much like a mystery novel.
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She charm me, and for her, if not the disease, I come.
He is not interested in the cause itself, as he knows about it already, but he wants to save Lucy from her fate.
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You must send me the telegram every day, and if there be cause I shall come again.
Van Helsing is also inadvertently saying that the cause could worsen almost immediately, and you realize later in the story that it is also so that if Dracula made it so that Dr. Seward could not send the telegram he would know something was amiss.
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in no way anemic
This is not the most likely disease, or anything related, further hinting at that it is caused by something, or someone
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I know well what she will say.
Van Helsing is already sure of the cause of the problem
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it has been but is not
Lucy not losing blood at all times means that it is only at certain times, which leads further into the revelation that Dracula is drinking her blood
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there is no functional cause
If the reader had not figured it out already, here is the point where the book says outright that it is not a natural cause of blood loss
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(Van Helsing) looked grave
The "smart person in the room", which Van Helsing has been explained to be, looking worried instantly sets the tone of the coming paragraph to be bringing bad news.
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if, indeed, I be not mad already
He's already questioning his sanity even at this point
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let me be calm, for out of that way lies madness indeed
If he breaks down, he worries that he will not get the chance to recover his sanity
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to him alone I can look for safety
No one else other than the Count appears to keep to their word or worry about appearances, and the Count has taken it upon himself to kill off Harker only when he is no longer useful
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the Count is the least dreadful to me
He's realized that even though the Count is an antagonist, he knows how he acts at this point. The other horrors within the castle are unknown to him, and it is safer for him to go with the known enemy rather than the unknown enemy
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God preserve my sanity
He's praying to a higher power for mental safety, right now his greatest worry is keeping his mental fortitude
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