Chapter 27
Epilogue: Doubt and Aftermath
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1 Six years on, the narrator's villa stands quiet on Maybury Hill, one study window lit
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2 The narrator has finished writing for the night.
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3 From the narrator's study window, a single shooting star falls toward Horsell Common
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4 The narrator half-rises from his desk as the quiet valley turns back into a burning one
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6 Sightseers crane up at the dead fighting-machine on Primrose Hill as children play
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7 In his lamplit study, the narrator holds the hand of the wife he had counted as dead
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8 On the night he finishes his story, the narrator holds his wife's hand on the last pages
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