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The spasm by g the Mopa sun. The hotel guests slowly entered the dining

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room and took their places. The
waiters did not hurry themselves in order to

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keep the late comers a chance,
and as avoid the trouble of bringing the

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dishes a second time. The old
bathers the bit way, whose season was

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almost over planned, gazed towards the
door whenever it opened, to see what

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new faces might appear. This is
the principal disfraction of watering places. People

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look forward to the dinner hour in
order to inspect each day's new arrivals,

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to find out who they are,
what they do, and what they think.

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We always have a vague desire to
meet pleasant people, to make agreeable

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acquaintances, perhaps to meet with a
love adventure. In this life of elbowings,

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a known strangers assume an extreme importance. Curiosity is aroused, sympathy is

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ready to exhibit itself, and sossibility
is the order of day. We cherish

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antipathies for a week and friendships for
a month. We see people with different

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eyes when we view them through the
medium of acquaintanceship. At watering places,

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we discovering men suddenly after an hour's
chat in the evening after dinner under the

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trees in the park, where the
healing spring bubbles up a high intelligence and

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astonishing merits. And a month afterward
we have completely forgotten these new friends who

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are so fascinating when we first met
them. Permanent and serious ties are also

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formed here, sooner than anyone else. People see each other every day.

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They become acquainted very quickly, and
their affection is staged with the sweetness and

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honnestraint of long sending intimacies. We
cherish in after years the dear and tender

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memories of those first hours of friendship, the memory of those first conversations in

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which a soul is unveiled, of
those first glances which interrogate and respond to

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questions and secret thoughts which out as
not yet uttered, the memory of the

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first cordial confidence, the memory of
the delightful sensation of opening our hearts to

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those who seemed to open theirs was
in return, and the melancholy of watering

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places, the monotony of days that
are all alike, proves hourly and incentive

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to this heart expansion. While this
evening, as on every other evening,

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were awaited the appearance of strange faces. Only two appeared, but they were

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very remarkable, and men and a
woman, father and daughter. They immediately

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reminded me of some Edgar Post characters, And yet there was about them a

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charm, the charm associated with misfortune. I looked upon them as the victims

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of fate. The man was very
tall and thin, rather stooped, with

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perfectly white hair, too white for
his comparatively youthful physiognomy. And there was

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in his bearing and his person that
asserty peculiar to Protestants. The daughter,

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who was probably twenty four twenty five, was small in stature, and was

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also very thin, very pale,
and had the air of one who was

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worn out with utter lassitude. We
meet people like this from time to time,

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who seemed too weak for the tasks
and the need of daily life,

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too weak to move about, to
walk, to do all that we do

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every day. She was surrounded pretty, with a transparent, spiritual beauty,

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and she ate with extreme slowness,
as if she were almost incapable of moving

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her arms. It must have been, she assuredly, who had come to

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take the waters. They sat facing
me on the opposite side of the table,

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and I at once noticed that the
father had a very singular nervous twitching

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every time he wanted to reach an
object. His undescribed a sort of zigzag

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before succeeded in reaching what it was
in search of. And after a little

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while this movement annoyed me so that
I turned aside my head in order not

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to see it. I noticed too
that the young girl during me wore a

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glove on her left hand. After
dinner, I went for a stroll in

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the park of the bathing establishment.
This led toward the little over niestation of

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Chatel Guyon, hidden in a garge
at the foot of the high mountain,

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from which flowed so many bowling springs
arising from the deep bed of extinct volcanoes.

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Over yonder above our heads, the
domes of extinct craters lifted the erect

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peaks above the rest in the long
mountain chain. For Chatel Guyon is situated

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at the entrance to the land of
mountain domes. Beyond it stretches out the

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region of peaks, and farther on
again the region of precipitous summits. The

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Pewed Dome is the highest of the
domes. The peak of Sancy is the

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loftiest of the peaks, and Cantal
is the most precipitious of these mountain heights.

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It was a very warm evening,
and I was walking up and down

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a shady path, listening to the
opening strains of the casino band, which

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was laying on an elevation overlooking the
park, and I saw the father and

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the daughter advancing slowly in my direction. I bowed as one bows to one

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hotel companion's at watering place, and
the man, coming suddenly to a halt,

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said to me, could you not, monsieur tell us of a nice

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walk to take, short, pretty
and not steep, and perdom my tribling

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you. I offered to show them
the way toward the valley through which the

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little river flowed, a deep valley
forming a guard between two tall, cracky

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wooded slopes. They gladly accepted my
offer, and we talked naturally about the

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virtue of the waters. Oh,
he said, my daughter is a slinged

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malady, the seat of which is
unknown. She suffers for all uncomprincipled nervous

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attacks. At one time the doctors
thinks she has an attack of heart disease.

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At another time they imagine it is
some affection of the liver, and

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at another they declare it to be
a disease of the spine. Today,

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this protant malady that assumes a thousand
farms and a thousand modes of attack,

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is attributed to the stomach, which
is the great cauldron and regulator of the

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body. This is why we'll come
here for my part. I am rather

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inclined to think it is the nerves. In any case, it is very

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sad. Immediately the remembrance of the
violent, spasmodic movement of his hand came

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back to my mind, and I
asked him, but, as this is

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not the result of aridity, are
it not your own nerves somewhat affected?

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He replied calmly, mine, Oh
no, my nerves have always been very

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steady. Then suddenly, after a
pause, and he went on, ah,

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you were alluding to the jerky movement
on my hand every time I tried

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to reach for anything. This arises
from a terrible experience which I had just

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imagine. This daughter of mine was
actually buried alive. I could only utter,

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Ah, so great were my astonishment
and emotion, He continued, Here

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is a story. It is simple. She yet had been subject for a

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time to serious attacks of the heart, who believed that she had diseased of

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the organ and were prepared for the
worst. One day, she was carried

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into the house called lifeless dead.
She had fallen down unconscious in the garden.

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The doctor certified that life was extinct. I watched by her side for

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a day and two nights. I
laid her with my own hands in the

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coffin, which I accompanied to the
cemetery where she was deposited in the family

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vault. It is situated in the
very heart of Lorraine. I wished to

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have her interred with her jewels,
bracelet, necklaces, rings, all presents

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which she had received from me,
and wearing her first ball dress. You

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may easily imagine my seate of mind
when I ever entered our home. She

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was the only one I had,
for my wife had been dead for many

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years. I found my way to
my own apartment in a half distracted condition,

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exhausted and sunk into my easy chair, without the capacity to think or

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the strength to move. I was
not in better now than a suffering vibrating

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machine, a human being who had, as it were, been flayed alive.

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My soul was like an open wound. My old fallete Prosper, who

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had assisted me in placing Giuliette in
her coffin and aided me in preparing her

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for the last leap, entered the
room noiselessly and asked, does Monsieur want

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anything? I merely shook my head
in reply. Monsieur is wrong, he

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urged, he will injure his health. Would Monsieur like me to put him

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to bed? I answered, now
let me alone, and he left the

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room. I knew not how many
hours slid away? Oh what a night,

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What a night? He was called. My fire had died out in

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the huge grate, and the wind, the winter wind, and icy wind,

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a winter hurricane, blew with a
regular sinister noise against the windows.

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How many hours slipped away? There
I was, without sleeping, powerless,

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crushed, my eyes wide opened,
my legs stretched out, my body limp

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inanimate, and my mind torpid with
despair. Suddenly the great doorbell, the

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great bell of the vespule, rang
out. I started so that my chair

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cracked under me. The solemn,
ponderous sound vibrated through the empty country house

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as through a bolt. I turned
round to see what the hour was by

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the clock, It was just too
in the morning. Who could be coming

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at such an hour? And abruptly
the bell again ran twice. The servants,

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without doubt, were afraid to get
up. I took a wax candle

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and ascended the stairs. I was
on the point of asking who is there?

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Then I felt ashamed of my weakness, and I slowly drew back the

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heavy bolts. My heart was robbing
wildly. I was frightened. I opened

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the door briskly, and in the
darkness I distinguished a white figure sending erect

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something that resembled an apparition. I
recoiled, petrified with horror, faltering,

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who who are you? A voice
replied, it is I father, It

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was my daughter. I really thought
I must be mad, and retreated backward

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before this advancing inspector. I kept
moving away, making a sign with my

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hand as if to try the phantom
away that gesture which you have noticed,

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that gesture which has remained with me
ever since. Do not be afraid,

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Papa said the apparition. I was
not dead. Somebody tried to steal my

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rings and cut one of my fingers. The blood began to flow, and

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that restored me to life. And
in fact I could see that her hands

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was covered with blood. I fell
on my knees, choking with sobs,

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and we were rattling in my throat. Then, when I had somewhat collected

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my thoughts, though I was still
so bewildered that I scarcely realized the awesome

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happiness that had befallen me, I
made her go up to my room and

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sit down in mazy chair. Then
I rang exactly for prosper to get him

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to the kindle the fire, and
to bring some wine and to someone assistance.

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The man entered said that my daughter
opened his mouth with a gasp of

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alarm and stupefaction, and then fell
back dead. It was he who had

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opened the vault, who had mutilated
and then abandoned my daughter, for he

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could not efface the traces of the
theft. He had not even taken a

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trouble to put back the coffin into
this place, feeling sure besides that he

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would not be suspected by me,
as I trusted him absolutely. You see,

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monsieur, that we are very unfortunate
people. He was silent the night

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had fallen, casting his shadows over
the desolate, mournful veil, and a

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sort of mysterious fear possessed me at
finding myself by the sight of those strange

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beings, of this young girl who
had come back from the tomb, and

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his father with his uncanny spasms.
I found it impossible to make any comments

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on this dreadful story. I only
murmured, what a horrible thing. Then,

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after it's silence, I added,
let us go indoors. I think

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he's growing cool, and we made
our way back to the hotel end of

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the spasm.