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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: within the plain yellow circlet was a date,--"JUILLET--1851" ;
and the names,--"ADELE + JULIEN,"--separated by a cross. The
Estelle carried coffins that day: most of them were already
full; but there was one for Adele.
Who was she?--who was her Julien? ... When the Estelle and many
other vessels had discharged their ghastly cargoes;--when the
bereaved of the land had assembled as hastily as they might for
the du y of identification;--when memories were strained almost
to madness in research of names, dates, incidents--for the
evocation of dead words, resurrection of vanished days,
recollection of dear promises,--then, in the confusion, it was
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