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| 23 | 34 | "It is View more quotes about true">true, noble one," said the gardener. |
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| 23 | 31 | "Thus," I said, "on a clear night, their silence would betoken their concern, and their concern might be occasioned by something unanticipated or unfamiliar in the garden, for example, an animal, or intruder". |
| 23 | 32 | "It is true," said the gardener, "that their sudden silence might be so motivated". |
| 23 | 33 | "Their silence, then," I said, "could be construed, by those familiar with such things, guards, servitors, even slaves, as a clarion of alarm". |
| 23 | 34 | "It is true, noble one," said the gardener. |
| 23 | 35 | "I have work to do". |
| 23 | 36 | "But on a night of rain," I said, "as their songs desist, their silence would be unlikely to motivate an investigation". |
| 23 | 37 | "One supposes not, noble one," he said. |