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Professor Scrope's servant led the way to a large apartment at the back of the house which, in ordinary circumstances, would have been the drawing-room. The walls were lined with cages containing all kinds of rare birds. To the left was another room entirely filled with books, which formed, as Ebory told his companion, the finest ornithological library in Europe. The visitors were still examining the beautiful little prisoners behind the bars when Scrope came in. As to the Professor himself, he was tall and thin, with a large high forehead and shining bald head, and the lower part of his face was hidden under a long grey beard.
-"What can I do for you?" he asked.