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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 both might share the spectacle in accustomed fashion.
West
told me how he had obtained the specimen. It had been a vigorous
man; a well-dressed stranger just off the train on his way to
transact some business with the Bolton Worsted Mills. The walk
through the town had been long, and by the time the traveller
paused at our cottage to ask the way to the factories, his heart
had become greatly overtaxed. He had refused a stimulant, and
had suddenly dropped dead only a moment later. The body, as might
be expected, seemed to West a heaven-sent gift. In his brief conversation
the stranger had made it clear that he was unknown in Bolton,
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