I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certai…

Charles Dickens
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I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning. ✨ Charles Dickens (1841). Master Humphrey's Clock, p.239
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I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning. ✨ Charles Dickens (1841). Master Humphrey's Clock, p.239

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