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It might have been, as I guessed, about ten at night. The first of my / senses which came into play after this last bout was that of hearing. / All at once I could hear; and it was a real exercise of the sense of / hearing. I could hear the silence in the gallery after the din which / for hours had stunned me. At last these words of my uncle's came to / me like a vague murmuring:
"We are going up."