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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: mockeries of bodies, as might remain from the morbid experiments
and unhallowed amusements of the owner. During the excavation
of this cellar the workmen had struck some exceedingly ancient
masonry; undoubtedly connected with the old burying-ground, yet
far too deep to correspond with any known sepulchre therein. After
a number of calculations West decided that it represented some
secret chamber beneath the tomb of the Averills, where the last
interment had been made in 1768. I was with him when he studied
the nitrous, dripping walls laid bare by the spades and mattocks
of the men, and was prepared for the gruesome thrill which would
attend the uncovering of centuried grave-secrets; but for the
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