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On such occasions when the Landschaftscollegium gave the order 'aufzuraumen, it was the usage to dig a hole in a corner of the churchyard then to bring up en masse the contents of the Kassengewolbe coffins, whether entire or in fragments, bones, skulls, and tattered graveclothes and finally to shovel the whole heap into the aforesaid pit.
But the heavy corpse-like odor which penetrated Lazarus' graveclothes and, it seemed, his very body, soon entirely disappeared, the blue spots on his face and hands grew paler, and the reddish cracks closed up, although they never disappeared altogether.
"What is it, mother?" cried the husband and wife at once. Then the old woman, with an air of mystery which drew the circle closer round the fire, informed them that she had provided her graveclothes some years before, a nice linen shroud, a cap with a muslin ruff, and everything of a finer sort than she had worn since her wedding day.
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