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Renfield is a patient at the insane asylum that Dr. Seward manages. He is confined to a cell, where he insists on eating live bugs and animals. In fits of delusions and mania, Renfield talks cryptically about his master and teases an increasingly frustrated Seward. In this scene, Renfield is sitting in a small, ornate chair that mysteriously appeared in his cell. His chains are gone and he smokes an imaginary cigarette. Seward is accompanied by Van Helsing, his mentor and a professor who
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Start: Seward: What is鈥攚here did this chair come from?
Renfield: From one who holds me in high esteem.
Van Helsing: From the one you call Master?
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End: Van Helsing: Can you tell me why men鈥攊n all ages and all places鈥攈ave believed that there are some few who live on always? That there are men and women who cannot die?
Renfield: (Looking up at them suddenly, cogently) I did what I could to warn you. Remember that.
Citation: Steven Dietz, Dracula, Dramatists Play Service, 1996, pp. 48-51.
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