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1  That was ivory: a cold white thing.
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2  He thought his face must be white because it felt so cool.
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3  Eileen had long thin cool white hands too because she was a girl.
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4  To remember that and the white look of the lavatory made him feel cold and then hot.
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5  So long and cruel they were, though the white fattish hands were not cruel but gentle.
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6  And it was there that the old servants had seen the ghost in the white cloak of a marshal.
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7  He wondered whether the scullion's apron was damp too or whether all white things were cold and damp.
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8  His white silk badge fluttered and fluttered as he worked at the next sum and heard Father Arnall's voice.
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9  But he drank off the hot weak tea which the clumsy scullion, girt with a white apron, poured into his cup.
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10  He wore the white cloak of a marshal; his face was pale and strange; he held his hand pressed to his side.
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11  One evening when playing tig she had put her hands over his eyes: long and white and thin and cold and soft.
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12  The little silk badge with the white rose on it that was pinned on the breast of his jacket began to flutter.
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13  It made you think of dark purple because the grapes were dark purple that grew in Greece outside houses like white temples.
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14  But Mr Gleeson had round shiny cuffs and clean white wrists and fattish white hands and the nails of them were long and pointed.
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15  He was standing on the field; his hand was pressed to his side; his face was pale and strange and he wore the white cloak of a marshal.
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16  He blessed himself and climbed quickly into bed and, tucking the end of the nightshirt under his feet, curled himself together under the cold white sheets, shaking and trembling.
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17  And though he trembled with cold and fright to think of the cruel long nails and of the high whistling sound of the cane and of the chill you felt at the end of your shirt when you undressed yourself yet he felt a feeling of queer quiet pleasure inside him to think of the white fattish hands, clean and strong and gentle.
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