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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: were not altogether connected with Wilbur and his grandfather.
Darkness fell upon a stricken countryside too passive to organize
for real defence. In a few cases closely related families would
band together and watch in the gloom under one roof; but in general
there was only a repetition of the barricading of the night before,
and a futile, ineffective gesture of loading muskets and setting
pitchforks handily about. Nothing, however, occurred except some
hill noises; and when the day came there were many who hoped that
the new horror had gone as swiftly as it had come. There were
even bold souls who proposed an offensive expedition down in the
glen, though they did not venture to set an actual example to
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