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that picturesque

Great shadows which had long been jostling on the walls were now merged in the heavy blackness of a background which was unbroken same where a window opening framed a square of the outside night.

A wonderful square appearing like a rich piece of enamel of the rarest deepest blue, inlaid in a wall of ebony.

A shadow passes over someones foot, it is a rat

A common enough incident bringing merely a curse from a listener, but interrupting neither song nor story.

But soon the whistle of a shell flows overhead above the ruins and there is silence to await the explosion which must follow.
"[Common?] sack"
"That'll be near the cathedral" says the cook

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