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Priests, soldiers, sailors, students, actors--who assemble in the
Galleria to seek engagements--newsboys, and youths whose faces
suggested that they were "ruffiani," mingled with foreigners who had
come from the hotels and from the ships in the harbor, and whose
demeanor was partly curious and partly suspicious, as of one who longs
to probe the psychology of a thief while safely guarding his pockets.
The buzz of voices, the tramp of feet, gained a peculiar and vivid
sonorousness from the high and vaulted roof; and in the warm air,
under the large and winking electric lights, the perpetually moving
figures looked strangely capricious, hungry, determined, furtive,
ardent, and intent. On their little stands the electric fans whirred
as they slowly revolved, casting an artificial breeze upon pallid
faces, and around the central dome the angels with gilded wings lifted
their right arms as if pointing the unconscious multitude the
difficult way to heaven.
A priest sat down with two companions at the table next to Artois.


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