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Joseph W.

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minor

First appearance: the white people

Joseph W. shows up with force in II: Mr. Clarke's Memoirs. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Trevor's father, who investigated his son's fright in the woods and later witnessed the boy's reaction to the stone head.
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  • Aftermath
  • Closing

The emotional peak occurs when the soldier awakens to a profound sense of "delicious ease," "assurance of comf…

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