…the man she’d remembered as papa.
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…with a stillness beyond sleep…
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…but in which lay…
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…a coffin or casket, around which no mourners stood…
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…she saw…
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…and going in…
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…parting its curtains…
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…until…
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…whose purpose she could not ascertain…
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…the entrance to a chamber…
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…where she could glimpse, at the far end…
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…brought her into a vestibule…
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…which, upon her descent…
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…Bessie had arrived at the top of a stairwell…
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…and down a hall…
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…around a corner…
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…through the passage…
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Meanwhile…
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…or waited for sleep to come to him.
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…went to sleep…