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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: and in their shrill chorus there seemed to lurk a note of tense
and evil expectancy.
Earl Sawyer now took the telescope and
reported the three figures as standing on the topmost ridge, virtually
level with the altar-stone but at a considerable distance from
it. One figure, he said, seemed to be raising its hands above
its head at rhythmic intervals; and as Sawyer mentioned the circumstance
the crowd seemed to hear a faint, half-musical sound from the
distance, as if a loud chant were accompanying the gestures. The
weird silhouette on that remote peak must have been a spectacle
of infinite grotesqueness and impressiveness, but no observer
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