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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: in the afternoon to a case which ended very threateningly. An
Italian woman had become hysterical over her missing child --
a lad of five who had strayed off early in the morning and failed
to appear for dinner -- and had developed symptoms highly alarming
in view of an always weak heart. It was a very foolish hysteria,
for the boy had often run away before; but Italian peasants are
exceedingly superstitious, and this woman seemed as much harassed
by omens as by facts. About seven o’clock in the evening she had
died, and her frantic husband had made a frightful scene in his
efforts to kill West, whom he wildly blamed for not saving her
life. Friends had held him when he drew a stiletto, but West departed
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