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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: lapping sound from somewhere outside. Mrs Frye proposed telephoning
the neighbours, and Elmer was about to agree when the noise of
splintering wood burst in upon their deliberations. It came, apparently,
from the barn; and was quickly followed by a hideous screaming
and stamping amongst the cattle. The dogs slavered and crouched
close to the feet of the fear-numbed family. Frye lit a lantern
through force of habit, but knew it would be death to go out into
that black farmyard. The children and the women-folk whimpered,
kept from screaming by some obscure, vestigial instinct of defence
which told them their lives depended on silence. At last the noise
of the cattle subsided to a pitiful moaning, and a great snapping,
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