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hind the six dull-gleaming rifle-barrels, six brown stocks, then besides each stock, pressed close, a face, set, stone-like, and an eye, like a slit.
He stood there, with drooping jaw, his arms limp along his sides, while six blue-clad guards, each silent as a carven thing, aimed carefully at his breast, each with his index-finger upon his rifle-trigger.
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