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TYLTYL (_going to the next door_)
I say!... This is a darker one.... What is here?
NIGHT
There are several Mysteries behind this one.... If you are absolutely bent
upon it, you may open it too.... But don't go in.... Be very cautious and
let us get ready to push back the door, as we did with the Wars....
TYLTYL (_half-opening the door; with unparalleled precautions and passing
his head fearsomely through the aperture_)
Oh!... How cold!... My eyes are smarting!... Shut it quickly!... Push, oh,
push! They are pushing against us!... (NIGHT, _the_ DOG, _the_ CAT _and_
SUGAR _push back the door_.) Oh, I saw!...
NIGHT
What?...
TYLTYL (_upset_)
I don't know, it was awful!... They were all seated like monsters without
eyes.... Who was the giant who tried to seize me?...
NIGHT
It was probably Silence; he has charge of this door.... It appears to have
been alarming?... You are quite pale still and trembling all over....
TYLTYL
Yes, I would never have believed.... I had never seen.... And my hands are
frozen....
NIGHT
It will be worse presently if you go on....
TYLTYL (_going to the next door_)
And this one?... Is this terrible also?...
NIGHT
No; there is a little of everything here.
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