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He was very quiet, and his white face, with its ruddy whiskers, seemed suddenly inhuman.
"Sara," broke in Miss Minchin's deep voice, "come and sit here."
He looked at the two, less and less attentively, and his eyes in gloomy abstraction sought the ground and looked about him in the old way.
This was the call of life to his soul not the dull gross voice of the world of duties and despair, not the inhuman voice that had called him to the pale service of the altar.
