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The just living of a life-time makes a man incapable of any mere selfish handling of another's interests a fact on which the bystander may reckon. It was quite dark by the time he entered the large open-roofed hall of the Court. "Is his lordship in?" he asked of a passing footman. "Yes, sir in the library. He has been asking for you, sir."
As the master opened the door, a hot puff of stuffy, unpleasantly close air came out, and the noise ceased as if by magic, though there were about three hundred boys in the long, open-roofed room. The doctor cast his eye round and saw a crowd of heads, the schoolmaster, and besides these whitewash. The walls, the ceiling, the beams were all whitewashed.
They were simply open-roofed spaces, the roofs gabled, spiked, and carved into fantastic shapes, laden with dingy gold-leaf garishly picked out with glaring colours and studded with bits of stained glass; the roofs, or rather I should say, the one continuous roof, supported on massive deep red pillars of teak-wood. The whole palace was raised from the ground on a brick platform some 10 feet high.
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