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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: to traverse the countryside in safety. His occasional use of the
weapon did not enhance his popularity amongst the owners of canine
guardians.
The few callers at the house would often find Lavinia
alone on the ground floor, while odd cries and footsteps resounded
in the boarded-up second storey. She would never tell what her
father and the boy were doing up there, though once she turned
pale and displayed an abnormal degree of fear when a jocose fish-pedlar
tried the locked door leading to the stairway. That pedlar told
the store loungers at Dunwich Village that he thought he heard
a horse stamping on that floor above. The loungers reflected,
The Dunwich Horror |
