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The others followed, and they all walked quite solemn and steady-like down the stairs together. It was a strange sight. There we were standing and leaning about the dark hall, staring and wondering, and these people walking down to meet us like ghosts, without speaking or anything else. Mr. Knightley was a tall, handsome man, with a grand black beard that came down to his chest.
However, there was the embankment holding back the dirty yellow water; and now the pump was running on steady-like, there didn't so much come slopping over to add to the deluge that threatened Sapps Court. The policeman the only one supposed to exist, although in form he varied slightly made an inquiry as to what was going on, to be beforehand with Anarchy.
"Kind o' ticklish business, ain't it?" he said. The artist admitted that it was. "I reckon I wouldn't ever 'a' done for a painter," said the old man, readjusting his legs. "It's settin'-work, and that's good; but you have to keep at it steady-like keep a-daubin' and a-scrapin' and a-daubin' and a-scrapin', day in and day out. I shouldn't like it.
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