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I felt an overwhelming shame, a shame so deep and painful it filled me completely, banishing even the faintest aftertaste of the attempted feast. ’             'All right,' I said, 'I see. ’             'It isn't that I don't believe it,' said Aunt Queen, 'it's that I don't think the outside world will believe it.             The four oak trees that guard the cemetery now were already well grown at that time, and the proximity of the old graveyard to the

Mardi Gras Day was February twenty-seventh.             I stepped down into the vault, and for a long time I stood there, inside the mausoleum -- in the vault -- merely staring at the empty coffin.             The sun was lowering outside, and only feeble rays managed to get through the labyrinth of green that crowded most of the house. Well, when I get back out there with my men we're throwing out his marble table and his golden chair.