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"WILLIAM FOX? He's the most brilliant man they've got, but a two-edged sword; they're all afraid of him!"
The speaker had just left the swinging doors at the foot of the staircase from the Rotunda, under the old Library rooms in the west front of the Capitol, and his companion, who was also a member, was working himself slowly into his greatcoat.