Alexander, Sam, and Edmund. Requesting permission to speak.

    Of course, said t is it?

    ell sir, said Alexander, some of thinking.

    Yes?  is it thinking?

    ell sir, said Alexander, the men have a melancholy.

    Ohomas. hich?

    ell sir, I  is than a sourness.

    are toms?

    igo, singing in t and s side. Not eacom. Most wo. Some hree. One has four.

    Me, Edmund said.

    Did I not double tion? thomas asked.

    You did, sir, you did, and eful. Yet --

    ell he issue?

    ell sir, I o t. thical.

    Oh my. Local or general?

    ell sir, o be doin s a scotomizing, you might say.

    A w?

    A darkening of truth.

    truth and how darkened?

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    An occasion. thomas rising.

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