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The dining-room of Abbot's Manor was not a light apartment, -its oak-panelled walls and raftered ceiling created shadow rather than luminance, and though the windows were large and lofty, rising from the floor to the cornice, their topmost panes were of very old stained glass, so that the brightest sunshine only filtered, as it were, through the deeply-encrusted hues of rose and amber and amethyst squares, painted with the arms of the Vancourts, and heraldic emblems of bygone days.
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