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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: that we had all evidently dined and wined rather well.
Apparently
this acidulous matron was right; for about 3 a.m. the whole house
was aroused by cries coming from West’s room, where when they
broke down the door, they found the two of us unconscious on the
blood-stained carpet, beaten, scratched, and mauled, and with
the broken remnants of West’s bottles and instruments around us.
Only an open window told what had become of our assailant, and
many wondered how he himself had fared after the terrific leap
from the second story to the lawn which he must have made. There
were some strange garments in the room, but West upon regaining
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