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She berated him then, and for a while the crepuscular birds retreated, but outside the wind had blown the sun out, and it was getting very cold.

The most excruciating thing was probably their stern, dogmatic, peremptory tone, quivering with repressed indignation

The most excruciating thing was probably their stern, dogmatic, peremptory tone, quivering with repressed indignation

his face permanently clenched in a rictus of irritation

All things come to an end, including the night. I was dragged from my saurian lethargy by the clear, resonant voice of Captain Chaumont.