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That night two men were conversing in the Barbican, the elder, Americus, of subtle features and beard scantily inhabited, was saying to his son:
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The goblins drove on up the pass, regardless of their losses, until the first phalanx reached the barbican gates
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Absently, as he read, he heard the drum of horses' hoofs outside the barbican, the sharp staccato of the guards' challenge
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Over 168 pages, Martin makes a new (female) friend, is the epicentre of a major incident at the National Gallery and finally makes good on his promise to dance with Kelly, in the Barbican