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The Last Laugh
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There was a little snow on the ground, and the church clock had just struck midnight. Hampstead in the night of winter for once was looking pretty, with clean white earth and lamps for moon, and dark sky above the lamps.
A confused little sound of voices, a gleam of hidden yellow light. And then the garden door of a tall, dark Georgian house suddenly opened, and three people confusedly emerged. A girl in a dark blue coat and fur turban, very erect1: a fellow with a little dispatch-case, slouching: a thin man with a red beard, bareheaded, peering out of the gateway2 down the hill that swung in a curve downwards3 towards London.
“Look at it! A new world!” cried the man in the beard, ironically, as he stood on the step and peered out.
“No, Lorenzo! It’s only white-wash!” cried the young man in the overcoat. His voice was handsome, resonant4, plangent5, with a weary sardonic6 touch. As he turned back his face was dark in shadow.
The girl with the erect, alert head, like a bird, turned back to the two men.
“What was that?” she asked, in her quick, quiet voice.
“Lorenzo says it’s a new world. I say it’s only white-wash,” cried the man in the street.
She stood still and lifted her woolly, gloved finger. She was deaf and was taking it in.
Yes, she had got it. She gave a quick, chuckling7 laugh, glanced very quickly at the man in the bowler8 hat, then back at the man in the stucco gateway, who was grinning like a satyr and waving good-bye.
“Good-bye, Lorenzo!” came the resonant, weary cry of the man in the bowler hat.
“Good-bye!” came the sharp, night-bird call of the girl.
The green gate slammed, then the inner door. The two were alone in the street, save for the policeman at the corner. The road curved steeply downhill.
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weirdly
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