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Updated: May 19, 2025
There were so many lodgers in this house that the doorpost seemed to be as full of bell-handles as a cathedral organ is of stops. Doubtful which might be the clarionet-stop, he was considering the point, when a shuttlecock flew out of the parlour window, and alighted on his hat.
The symphony that followed fell like a mighty universal hush, through which the clarionet-stop chanted, unuttered but articulate, 'Give to us peace. Then the hush dissolved into a sea of sighs: 'Peace, peace! they yearned, and the mild deep diapason muttered, 'Peace. She, the one listener, felt, as it were, her brain fill soft with tears, her eyes rained them, and her heart, whose pulses had dropped as calm as dew, echoed the peaceful longing of the whole heart of humanity.
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