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The cousins show Karen her cemetery plot.

Lady Overblown and a case of the giggles.

“For a person to be disposed to more significant deeds that go beyond what is simply required of him — even when his own times may provide no satisfactory answer to the question of why — he needs either a rare, heroic personality that exists in a kind of moral isolation or immediacy, or one characterized by exceptionally robust vitality.”