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which two sentences best summarize this excerpt from nathaniel hawthorne's short story "dr. heidegger's experiment"?
his guests shivered again. a strange chillness, whether of the body or spirit they could not tell, was creeping gradually over them all. they gazed at
one another, and fancied that each fleeting moment snatched away a charm, and left a deepening furrow where none had been before was it an
illusion? had the changes of a lifetime been crowded into so brief a space, and were they now four aged people, sitting with their old friend, dr.
heidegger?
"are we grown old again, so soon? " cried they, dolefully
in truth they had the water of youth possessed merely a virtue more transient than that of wine the delirium which it created had effervesced away
yes, they were old again with a shuddering impulse that showed her a woman still, the widow clasped her skinny hands before her face, and wished
that the coffin-lid were over it since it could be no longer beautiful
"yes, friends, ye are old again" said dr. heidegger. "and to the water of youth is all lavished on the ground. well, i bemoan it not, for if the fountain
gushed at my very doorstep. i would not stoop to bathe my lips in it, no, though its delirium were for years instead of moments."
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