In the northern corner was a rice-husking shed, where the inmates of the inner apartments would occasionally foregather when household necessity demanded.
At first he had been accustomed to foregather in the evening with the painters, writers, and such like who met in the little tavern near the Piazza, but presently he withdrew himself, for his absorption in his studies became more pressing.
People now-a-days call on each other on business, or as a matter of social duty, but not to foregather by way of mujlis.
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