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356 The pool upon the grave had soaked away into the ground, and in its place was a hollow. The disturbed earth was washed away over the grass and pathway in the guise of the brown mud he had already seen, and it spotted the marble tombstone with the same stains. Nearly all the flowers were washed clean out of the ground, and they lay, roots upwards, on the spots whither they had been splashed by the stream."

Had there not been purple in his eye, he would have written: The pour of water from the gurgoyle washed away the grave-mound. A simple statement was all that was needed, and perhaps the very first among our literary instincts is the one that