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Pah! Only an old woman!... but the size,
The old, old matriarchal dreadfulness,
Immoveable, intolerable ... the eyes
Hidden, the hidden head, the winding dress
Corpselike.... The weight of the brute that seemed to press
Upon his heart and breathing. Then he heard
His own voice, strange and humbled, take the word.
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“Good Mother, let me pass. I have a friend