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He looked across to the ruinous pseudo-baroque town house that used to belong to a manufacturer of photographic paper but now housed the rules committee for the game of skat; four flags were hanging limply from the flagpoles outside the building: the ace of clubs, the queen of spades, the king of hearts and the ten of diamonds; there were lights on, they seemed to be pondering over enquiries.
Er sah hinüber zum Skatgericht, einem selbst in der Entfernung deutlich baufälligen pseudobarocken Palais, das früher einem Fotopapier-Hersteller gehört hatte; an den Fahnenmasten vor dem Gebäude schlappten vier Fahnen, Kreuz-As, Pik-Dame, Herz-König und Schellen-Zehn, Lichter brannten, man schien über Anfragen zu brüten.
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