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| | The Man Who Laughs -- Chapter 63 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The three doctors, delegated and appointed overseers, sat at Bishopsgate, at the end of a room on the ground floor in three arm-chairs covered with fl leather, with three busts of Minos, Æacus, and Rhadamanthus, in the wall above their heads, a table before them, and at their feet a form for the accused. |
 | | Ursus, introduced by a tipstaff, of placid but severe expression, entered, perceived the doctors, and immediately in his own mind gave to each of them the name of the judge of the infernal regions represented by the bust placed above his head. |
 | | "To continue," resumed Rhadamanthus; "you have declared that it was folly in Scipio, when he wished to open the gates of Carthage, to use as a key the herb æthiopis, because the herb æthiopis has not the property of breaking locks." |
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