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CHAPTER V MY RESURRECTION
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My first impulse was to find the custodian1 of the cemetery2 and ask him to have me conducted home, but various thoughts that came to me restrained me from following that course. My return would create general alarm; why should I hurry now that I was master of the situation? I felt my limbs; I had only an insignificant3 wound on my left arm, where I had bitten myself, and a slight feverishness4 lent me unhoped-for strength. I should no doubt be able to walk unaided.
Still I lingered; all sorts of dim visions confused my mind. I had felt beside me in the open grave some sextons' tools which had been left there, and I conceived a sudden desire to repair the damage I had done, to close up the hole through which I had crept, so as to conceal5 all traces of my resurrection. I do not believe that I had any positive motive6 in doing so. I only deemed it useless to proclaim my adventure aloud, feeling ashamed to find myself alive when the whole world thought me dead. In half an hour every trace of my escape was obliterated7, and then I climbed out of the hole.
The night was splendid, and deep silence reigned8 in the cemetery; the black trees threw motionless shadows over the white tombs. When I endeavored to ascertain9 my bearings I noticed that one half of the sky was ruddy, as if lit by a huge conflagration10; Paris lay in that direction, and I moved toward it, following a long avenue amid the darkness of the branches.
However, after I had gone some fifty yards I was compelled to stop, feeling faint and weary. I then sat down on a stone bench and for the first time looked at myself. I was
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conceal
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