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Chapter the Seventh The Bringing in of Lord Barralonga’s Party
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The conference broke up upon this announcement, but Lord Barralonga and his party were not brought to the Conference Gardens until long after dark. No effort was made to restrain or control the movements of the Earthlings. Mr. Burleigh walked down to the lake with Lady Stella and the psychologist whose name was Lion, asking and answering questions. Mr. Burleigh’s chauffeur1 wandered rather disconsolately2, keeping within hail of his employer. Mr. Rupert Catskill took Mr. Mush off by the arm as if to give him instructions.
Mr. Barnstaple wanted to walk about alone to recall and digest the astounding3 realizations5 of the afternoon and to accustom6 himself to the wonder of this beautiful world, so beautiful and now in the twilight7 so mysterious also, with its trees and flowers becoming dim and shapeless notes of pallor and blackness and with the clear forms and gracious proportions of its buildings melting into a twilight indistinctness.
The earthliness of his companions intervened between him and this world into which he felt he might otherwise have been accepted and absorbed. He was in it, but in it only as a strange and discordant8 intruder. Yet he loved it already and desired it and was passionately9 anxious to become a part of it. He had a vague but very powerful feeling that if only he could get away from his companions, if only in some way he could cast off his earthly clothing and everything upon him that marked him as earthly and linked him to earth, he would by the very act of casting that off become himself native to Utopia, and then that this tormenting10 sense, this
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1 chauffeur | |
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2 disconsolately | |
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3 astounding | |
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4 realization | |
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5 realizations | |
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6 accustom | |
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7 twilight | |
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8 discordant | |
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10 tormenting | |
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11 bleak | |
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13 astonishment | |
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14 rift | |
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18 whit | |
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19 shrubs | |
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20 irritably | |
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21 fission | |
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22 salvation | |
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23 wilderness | |
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24 sensuous | |
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25 materialism | |
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26 lapse | |
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27 constellations | |
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28 beheld | |
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29 starry | |
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30 vault | |
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31 unfamiliar | |
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32 nebula | |
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33 flattened | |
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34 pointed | |
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35 askew | |
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36 symbolical | |
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37 eloquence | |
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38 imminent | |
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40 fully | |
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41 deferential | |
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42 confession | |
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43 impelled | |
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44 tiresome | |
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45 deafening | |
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46 jabbering | |
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47 inaccurate | |
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48 obstinate | |
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49 fixed | |
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50 entirely | |
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51 embody | |
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52 outrage | |
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53 outrageous | |
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54 exasperated | |
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55 repelled | |
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56 Christian | |
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57 superstition | |
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58 malignity | |
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59 persecution | |
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60 utterly | |
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61 impudence | |
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62 missionaries | |
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63 pluckily | |
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64 catching | |
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65 recoiling | |
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66 vista | |
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67 interfere | |
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68 alley | |
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69 cascade | |
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70 deviously | |
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71 adorned | |
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72 squat | |
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73 vigilant | |
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74 interval | |
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75 sane | |
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76 disorder | |
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77 decadence | |
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78 militant | |
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79 prevailing | |
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80 obduracy | |
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81 antagonistic | |
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82 vile | |
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83 serene | |
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84 intensity | |
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85 turmoil | |
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86 distresses | |
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87 exquisite | |
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88 foulest | |
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89 ridges | |
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90 attainable | |
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91 petal | |
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92 vitality | |
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93 transcending | |
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94 incentive | |
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95 bracelet | |
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96 rusty | |
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97 underneath | |
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98 mischief | |
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99 adventurous | |
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100 benevolence | |
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101 martyr | |
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102 corrupting | |
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103 prospector | |
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104 speculations | |
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105 shipping | |
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106 costly | |
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107 intercepting | |
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108 ignobly | |
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109 disillusion | |
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110 disorders | |
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111 spoke | |
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112 alas | |
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113 toil | |
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114 miserably | |
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115 supreme | |
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117 incessant | |
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118 abruptly | |
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119 inconvenient | |
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120 perfectly | |
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121 rites | |
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122 coffin | |
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123 sobbing | |
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128 contentious | |
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138 wary | |
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139 urchin | |
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140 automobile | |
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141 frankly | |
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142 flannel | |
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143 extraordinarily | |
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144 habitual | |
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145 hauteur | |
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146 thoroughly | |
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148 accomplishment | |
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150 watchful | |
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151 aloof | |
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152 austere | |
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153 saturated | |
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154 exhausted | |
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155 importunate | |
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156 drowsily | |
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