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hands—stood just so a moment—then I said, with the most awful solemnity:  "Let the enchantment dissolve and pass harmless away!"

There was no response, for a moment, in that deep darkness and that graveyard hush.  But when the silver rim of the sun pushed itself out, a moment or two later, the assemblage broke loose with a vast shout and came pouring down like a deluge to smother me with blessings and gratitude; and Clarence was not the last of the wash, to be sure.

End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 1., by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)