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The rain had passed over and had come back again, and now seemed to make itself quite at home in the valley and on the height.
When Landolin followed his wife's coffin down the outer stairs, he caught, step by step, with his left hand at the wall of the house, as though he needed support. The school children, who were in the yard singing the funeral hymn, looked up at the changed man.