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Coghlan breakfasted on coffee alone, next morning, and he had the dour / outlook and depressed spirit that always followed an evening with / Laurie these days. The trouble was, of course, that he wanted to marry / her, and resolutely wouldn't even consider the possibility.
He drank his coffee and stared glumly out into the courtyard below his / windows. His apartment was in one of the older houses of the Galata / district, slicked up for modern times. The courtyard had probably / once been a harem garden. Now it was flagstoned, with a few spindling / shrubs, and the noises of Istanbul were muted when they reached it.