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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: authorities, ostensibly in the college’s interest, as often as
we could without exciting suspicion. We found that the college
had first choice in every case, so that it might be necessary
to remain in Arkham during the summer, when only the limited summer-school
classes were held. In the end, though, luck favoured us; for one
day we heard of an almost ideal case in the potter’s field; a
brawny young workman drowned only the morning before in Summer’s
Pond, and buried at the town’s expense without delay or embalming.
That afternoon we found the new grave, and determined to begin
work soon after midnight.
It was a repulsive task that we undertook
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