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7 We pulled the heavy curtains from the windows and we saw that the rooms were small, and we thought that not more than twelve men could have lived here.
8 There was more window than wall upon its walls, and the windows went on straight around the corners, though how this kept the house standing we could not guess.
9 There was more window than wall upon its walls, and the windows went on straight around the corners, though how this kept the house standing we could not guess.
10 And there, before us, on a broad summit, with the mountains rising behind it, stood a house such as we had never seen, and the white fire came from the sun on the glass of its windows.
11 All the great modern inventions come from the Home of the Scholars, such as the newest one, which was found only a hundred years ago, of how to make candles from wax and string; also, how to make glass, which is put in our windows to protect us from the rain.