Word: collifax
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...where hardly a quarter of an hour passed "without someone snoring or talking in his sleep." The lavatories had no locks. Even solitary walks were forbidden. Yet there "one met for the first time characters, adult and adolescent, who bore about them the genuine quality of evil. There was Collifax, who practiced torments with dividers; Mr. Cranden with three grim chins, a dusty gown, a kind of demoniac sensuality; from these heights evil declined toward Parlow, whose desk was filled with minute photographs-advertisements of art photos. Hell lay about them in their infancy...
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