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Updated: May 23, 2025
In the bosom of my desertion awoke an infant hope. The noiseless thrill reached the coffin-door became sound, and smote on my ear. The door began to move with a low, soft creaking of its hinges. It was opening! I ceased to listen, and stared expectant. It opened a little way, and a face came into the opening. It was Lona's.
I dropped Adam's old spade, and the dull sound of its fall on the clay floor seemed reverberated from the chamber beyond: a childish terror seized me; I sat and stared at the coffin-door. But father Adam, mother Eve, sister Mara would soon come to me, and then welcome the cold world and the white neighbours! I forgot my fears, lived a little, and loved my dead.
The woman, moveless as a statue, stood silent also by the coffin-door. "Upon occasion," said the sexton at length, "it is more convenient to put one's bird-self in front. Every one, as you ought to know, has a beast-self and a bird-self, and a stupid fish-self, ay, and a creeping serpent-self too which it takes a deal of crushing to kill!
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