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And when they thought of how they had laboured, what discouragements they had overcome, and the enormous difference that would be made in their lives when the sails were turning and the dynamos runningwhen they thought of all this, their tiredness forsook them and they gambolled round and round the windmill, uttering cries of triumph. 🔊

Here it became apparent that Mr. Pilkington was about to spring some carefully prepared witticism on the company, but for a moment he was too overcome by amusement to be able to utter it. 🔊

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