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At this moment the daylight, that was stintingly diffused through the small, heavily-leaded window-panes, tinted the assembly with capricious tones and powerful contrasts from the chequered light and shade.
There was a scuffle of feet on the gravel outside the heavily-leaded diamond panes, and then the voice of Colonel Dabney, something clearer than a bugle. "Ye can read? You've eyes in your head? Don't attempt to deny it. Ye have!" Beetle snatched a crochet-work antimacassar from the shiny horsehair sofa, stuffed it into his mouth, and rolled out of sight. "You saw my notice-boards. Your duty?
He took a newspaper from his pocket and handed it to Major Kent, indicating with his thumb a column on the middle page. "The Lorimer Case. Judge's Charge to the Jury. Acquittal. "Scene outside the Court. Enthusiasm of the Crowd. A Demonstration." The Major read aloud the heavily-leaded lines which filled half the column. "Skip that part," said Meldon.
Yet surely nowhere so dismal as by the side of that still pool. I threw myself down on the ground there, utterly exhausted with my struggle against the wind, and with bearing the fathoms and fathoms of the heavily-leaded plumb-line that lay beside me.
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