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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: plain English, gone to the bad."
"Well, listen to this." Villiers told Clarke the story
he had heard from Austin.
"You see," he concluded, "there can be but little doubt
that this Mr. Blank, whoever he was, died of sheer terror; he
saw something so awful, so terrible, that it cut short his life.
And what he saw, he most certainly saw in that house, which,
somehow or other, had got a bad name in the neighbourhood. I
had the curiosity to go and look at the place for myself. It's
a saddening kind of street; the houses are old enough to be mean
and dreary, but not old enough to be quaint. As far as I could
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