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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: to many librarians in distant places where rare and forbidden
books of old days are kept. He was more and more hated and dreaded
around Dunwich because of certain youthful disappearances which
suspicion laid vaguely at his door; but was always able to silence
inquiry through fear or through use of that fund of old-time gold
which still, as in his grandfather's time, went forth regularly
and increasingly for cattle-buying. He was now tremendously mature
of aspect, and his height, having reached the normal adult limit,
seemed inclined to wax beyond that figure. In 1925, when a scholarly
correspondent from Miskatonic University called upon him one day
and departed pale and puzzled, he was fully six and three-quarters
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