Dracula Chapter 7 Notes
Mare's Tails are a kind of long cloud. As idle as a painted ship on a painted ocean is a quote fro Coleridge's The Rime of The Ancient Mariner.
Mortmain is a legal term. It is French for 'dead hand' and seems to mean that because the Demeter was under the command of a dead-hand, legal rights to it were alienated.
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