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He dropped through a gap in the ragged roof, sheer down, like a shot, into the rubble and refuse below; he lurched through the shed to the door, and through that to the black passage leading to the street the clatter on the higher staircase giving warning of the crowd coming after him and flew like a hare hard pressed toward the outer door, and then, just then, when every little moment counted, there was a scrambling sound, a chorus of oaths, a slipping, a sliding, a bang on one step and a bump on another; and, as he darted by and sprang out into the street the hall was filled with a writhing, scuffling, swearing mass of glue-covered men struggling in a whirling waste of loose brown paper.
He dropped through a gap in the ragged roof sheer down, like a shot into the rubble and refuse below; he lurched through the shed to the door, and through that to the black passage leading to the street the clatter on the higher staircase giving warning of the crowd coming after him and flew like a hare hard pressed toward the outer door, and then just then, when every little moment counted there was a scrambling sound, a chorus of oaths, a slipping, a sliding, a bang on one step and a bump on another; and, as he darted by, and sprang out into the street, the hall was filled with a writhing, scuffling, swearing mass of glue-covered men struggling in a whirling waste of loose brown paper.
I thought that his representation of them, by scattering rice grains over his glue-covered black board, was apt and admirable; and so did Otto Struve. This chance meeting with these two admirable astronomers was one of the little bits of romance in my life. I returned to England shortly after. Among our visitors at Hammerfield was Lord Lyndhurst.
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