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| 15 | 42 | How View more quotes about long">long, for example, would it take to traverse, say, the corridor between the gate of the garden, if I could reach it, from the courtyard, or palace steps, and the cover of the garden, and between this cover, and the exterior wall? I considered the height of the walls. |
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| 15 | 39 | Ela, I felt, there is so much here with which I have so little to do. |
| 15 | 40 | How much here, I thought, must be wasted on, and lost to, a barbarian sensibility. |
| 15 | 41 | In my crude way I found myself less rapt with delight than concerned with certain practical assessments, with, say, measuring distances, and calculating times. |
| 15 | 42 | How long, for example, would it take to traverse, say, the corridor between the gate of the garden, if I could reach it, from the courtyard, or palace steps, and the cover of the garden, and between this cover, and the exterior wall? I considered the height of the walls. |
| 15 | 43 | Quite high. |
| 15 | 44 | No trees I noted were near enough to the walls to afford access to the summit of a wall. |
| 15 | 45 | Too, I supposed that the garden walls would be similar to those of the courtyard itself, and, if this should be so, attaining their summit might constitute a dubious victory. |