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"text": "Kwaw, when he crossed the Yellow Sea, was of the full age of thirty-two years.³ The twenty previous equinoxes had passed over his head as he wandered, sole human tenant, among the colossal yet ignoble ruins of Wei-hai-wei.⁴",
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