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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: was born, but no known doctor or midwife presided at his coming.
Neighbours knew nothing of him till a week afterward, when Old
Wateley drove his sleigh through the snow into Dunwich Village
and discoursed incoherently to the group of loungers at Osborne's
general store. There seemed to be a change in the old man - an
added element of furtiveness in the clouded brain which subtly
transformed him from an object to a subject of fear - though he
was not one to be perturbed by any common family event. Amidst
it all he showed some trace of the pride later noticed in his
daughter, and what he said of the child's paternity was remembered
by many of his hearers years afterward.
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