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Black-Bordered Marbles

1 passage in the novel carry this mark, in the order they appear.

Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing among flowers can say—here, here lies my beloved; ye know not the desolation that broods in bosoms like these. What bitter blanks in those black-bordered marbles which cover no ashes! What despair in those immovable inscriptions!

Chapter 7, The Chapel · verse 8

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