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Updated: May 3, 2025
Something which they but half saw half a sight was enough sent them tearing back through the willow-brakes and acacia bushes to their homes, where they fairly dropped down, and cried: "Was it white?" "No yes nearly so we can't tell but we saw it." And one could hardly doubt, to look at their ashen faces, that they had, whatever it was.
Everywhere the leveller was peering through his glass, rodsmen were whacking their way through willow-brakes and rose-hedges, and the sweating Irishmen tossed the blue clay up with their long-handled shovels.
Over the willow-brakes, and down the vista of the open street, bright new houses, some singly, some by ranks, were prying in upon the old man's privacy. They even settled down toward his southern side. First a wood-cutter's hut or two, then a market gardener's shanty, then a painted cottage, and all at once the faubourg had flanked and half surrounded him and his dried-up marsh.
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