The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker (best manga ereader TXT) π
The old woman raised her head and said to me in a satisfied kind of way:
"A very fine ring, indeed-a beautiful ring! Oh, me! I once had such rings, plenty of them, and bracelets and earrings! Oh! for in those fine days I led the town a dance! But they've forgotten me now! They've forgotten me! They? Why they never heard of me! Perhaps their grandfathers remember me, some of them!" and she laughed a harsh, croaking laugh. And then I am bound to say that she astonished me, for she handed me back the ring with a certain suggestion of old-fashioned grace which was not without its pathos.
The old man eyed her with a sort of sudden ferocity, half rising from his stool, and said to me suddenly and hoarsely:
"Let me see!"
I was about to hand the ring
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The commissary stooped and looked in. Then he turned to the officer and said calmly:
βWe may as well go back. No trace here now; nothing to prove that man was the one wounded by your soldiersβ bullets! Probably they murdered him to cover up the trace. See!β again he stooped and placed his hands on the skeleton. βThe rats work quickly and they are many. These bones are warm!β
I shuddered, and so did many more of those around me.
βForm!β said the officer, and so in marching order, with the lanterns swinging in front and the manacled veterans in the midst, with steady tramp we took ourselves out of the dustheaps and turned backward to the fortress of Bicetre.
*
My year of probation has long since ended, and Alice is my wife. But when I look back upon that trying twelvemonth one of the most vivid incidents that memory recalls is that associated with my visit to the City of Dust.
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