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The command was roared out in a voice that sounded perilously like that of Leslie Cairns. Marjorie gave a little amused laugh. She stared straight at the red mask with tantalizing eyes. "Were you speaking to me?" she inquired with a cool discomfiting sweetness that made the eyes looking into hers snap. "Prisoner, you are insolent."
Mr Pickering experienced the discomfiting emotions of the man who pushes violently against an abruptly-yielding door, or treads heavily on the top stair where there is no top stair. He was shaken, and the clamlike stolidity which he had assumed as protection gave way. Night had descended upon Brookport. Eustace, the monkey, was in his little bed; Lord Wetherby in the smoking-room.
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