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1  At once the eyes darted sideways, and something white ran past me.
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2  'It must have gone into the past if it has gone anywhere,' he said.
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3  I lit a match and went on past the dusty curtains, of which I have told you.
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4  And it was already long past sunset when I came in sight of the palace, silhouetted black against the pale yellow of the sky.
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5  I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.
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6  After the fatigues, excitements, and terrors of the past days, and in spite of my grief, this seat and the tranquil view and the warm sunlight were very pleasant.
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7  Then someone suggested that their plaything should be exhibited in the nearest building, and so I was led past the sphinx of white marble, which had seemed to watch me all the while with a smile at my astonishment, towards a vast grey edifice of fretted stone.
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