...do you think you could lower that candle-shade just a little?
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...do you think you could lower that candle-shade just a little?
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Neigh was a man who never disturbed the flesh upon his face except when he was obliged to do so, and paused ten seconds where other people only paused one; as he moved his chin in speaking, motes of light from under the candle-shade caught, lost, and caught again the outlying threads of his burnished beard.
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He had removed the green abat-jour, for the candle-shades (as they sometimes will) were performing their office.
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[…] is a comparatively rare brass candlestick with a cylindrical glass candle-shade, and perforated brass cup […]
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