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Updated: May 5, 2025

The sound of it fills for a moment the great space of the rotunda; it echoes down the corridors to the side; it floats, softly melodious, through the palm trees of the ladies' palm room; it is heard, fainter and fainter, in the distant grill; and in the depths of the barber shop below the level of the street the barber arrests a moment-the drowsy hum of his shampoo brushes to catch the sound as might a miner in the sunken galleries of a coastal mine cease in his toil a moment to hear the distant murmur of the sea.

Stephen Leacock - Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich