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He would return to the poor chamber of the inn, where an old woman, in black, wearing the cornet head-dress her ancestors wore in the sixteenth century, waited with a candle to bar the door as soon as he returned. "All this," said Durtal to himself, "is the skeleton of a dead keep. To reanimate it we must revisualize the opulent flesh which once covered these bones of sandstone.
He couldn't even revisualize it clearly enough for his own private edification for the joy of seeing himself as others had seen him. Nothing remained but a picture of Dryad Anderson's face the face that had tried so hard to smile which she had lifted to him that first morning when he entered the front room of the little drab cottage at the edge of town.
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