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1 Then he left the courtroom, but not by his usual exit.
2 Judge Taylor was the only person in the courtroom who laughed.
3 Happily, we sped ahead of Reverend Sykes to the courtroom floor.
4 A deserted, waiting, empty street, and the courtroom was packed with people.
5 This time Judge Taylor's gavel came down with a bang, and as it did the overhead lights went on in the courtroom.
6 The Colored balcony ran along three walls of the courtroom like a second-story veranda, and from it we could see everything.
7 Mr. Heck Tate, who had entered the courtroom and was talking to Atticus, might have been wearing his high boots and lumber jacket.
8 Below us, heads turned, feet scraped the floor, babies were shifted to shoulders, and a few children scampered out of the courtroom.
9 I guess if she hadn't been so poor and ignorant, Judge Taylor would have put her under the jail for the contempt she had shown everybody in the courtroom.
10 Atticus and Mr. Gilmer met in front of the bench and whispered, then they left the courtroom by a door behind the witness stand, which was a signal for us all to stretch.
11 With one phrase he had turned happy picknickers into a sulky, tense, murmuring crowd, being slowly hypnotized by gavel taps lessening in intensity until the only sound in the courtroom was a dim pink-pink-pink: the judge might have been rapping the bench with a pencil.
12 We were surprised to find that we had been gone nearly an hour, and were equally surprised to find the courtroom exactly as we had left it, with minor changes: the jury box was empty, the defendant was gone; Judge Taylor had been gone, but he reappeared as we were seating ourselves.
13 The feeling grew until the atmosphere in the courtroom was exactly the same as a cold February morning, when the mockingbirds were still, and the carpenters had stopped hammering on Miss Maudie's new house, and every wood door in the neighborhood was shut as tight as the doors of the Radley Place.
14 To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor, the tax collector, the county clerk, the county solicitor, the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled of decaying record books mingled with old damp cement and stale urine.