A Crystal Age

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not get their words, albeit remaining inside fifteen yards of the grave. The uncoffined body, which appeared to be that of a totally mature man, was covered with a white fabric, and laid on a thick straw tangle, furnished with handles at the edges.

On these things, nonetheless, I offered yet a hurried look, so significantly consumed had I become in watching the gathering of living people before me; for they were unquestionably totally dissimilar to any individual animals I had ever experienced previously. The elderly person was tall and save, and from his frigid white glorious whiskers I took him to be around seventy years of age; yet he was completely straight, and his free developments and versatile track were those of a lot more youthful man.