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Aimée slipped through another door, into the twilight of her bedroom, whose windows upon the street were darkened by those fine-wrought screens of wood. Swiftly she thrust the box from sight, into the hollow in the mashrubiyeh made in old days to hold a water bottle where it could be cooled by breezes from the street.
The women sat with their mitted hands folded on their silken laps, their best brooches pinning decorously their fine-wrought neckerchiefs, their bosoms filled with sober knowledge and patient acquiescence.
Tears fell, tears of pity for the dead child, for herself, for the fine-wrought agony of life. "But I know!" Renault's voice, low and calm, came as it were from a shut corner of his heart. "I have felt and I have seen yes, Defeat, Despair, Regret all the black ghosts that walk." Isabelle raised her eyes questioningly.
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