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alarming. It was as if life terrified them and robbed them of
power of speech so that the shriek which was in their hearts
died at their throats. Their eyes were haggard and grim; and
notwithstanding the beastly lust that disfigured them, and
the meanness of their faces, and the cruelty, notwithstand-
ing the stupidness which was worst of all, the anguish of
those fixed eyes made all that crowd terrible and pathetic.
Philip loathed them, and yet his heart ached with the infi-
nite pity which filled him.
He took his coat from the cloak-room and went out into
the bitter coldness of the night.