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Updated: May 2, 2025
He stood staring at the body Carse had laid down. The parchmentlike skin of his face seemed to whiten; that was all; but he winced and slowly brushed his eyes with his hands when, in a moment, Ban Wilson floated down the shaft and, approached with a second unconscious body. At last Leithgow whispered: "They're all like that, Carse?" "Yes," answered the emotionless voice.
The whitewashed houses, too, which appeared handsome palaces in the distance, were now discovered, with few exceptions, to be sadly dilapidated; while the streets were thronged by an ill-favoured mob of all hues, from jet black to a sickly parchmentlike yellow. There were shops in the dirty-looking town, filled with all sorts of goods from Birmingham and Sheffield.
He nodded to the man-servant, crossed to the fire and rubbed his thin hands before it. "I expect his lordship will be down directly," said the servant. "Do you?" said Cassis and that was all. A precise, erect, parchmentlike person was Nugent Cassis, entirely colourless in himself and his outlook. The emotions of life never for an instant affected him.
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