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Als froruous market-clothes of a well-to-do

fare, the dead

body lay on the parlour floor, Anna quickly began to undress

him, laid his fob and seals in a wet heap on the table Her

husband and the woman helped her They cleared and washed the

body, and laid it on the bed

There, it looked still and grand He was perfectly calm in

death, and, noas laid in line, inviolable, unapproachable

To Anna, he was the majesty of the inaccessible male, the

majesty of death It wen, the mother, also came and saw the impressive,

inviolable body of the dead e or knowledge, absolute, laid in line with the

infinite What had she to do with him? He was a majestic

Abstraction, made visible now for a moment, inviolate, absolute

And who could lay claim to him, who could speak of him, of the

him as revealed in the strippednor the dead could claim him, he

was both the one and the other, inviolable, inaccessibly

hi in wen, her heart cold, knowing her own

singleness

"I did not know you in life You are beyond wen, awe-stricken, alent

about with a set, blanched face and shut hands, his heart full