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"Philip, too, looked into the future, and he saw Clutton in twenty years, bitter, lonely, savage, and unknown; still in Paris, for the life there had got into his bones, ruling a small cenacle with a savage tongue, at war with himself and the world, producing little in his increasing passion for a perfection he could not reach; and perhaps sinking at last into drunkenness."
cenacle, coenacle ['sɛnəkəl]
noun
1 a supper room, esp. one on an upper floor
"Philip, too, looked into the future, and he saw Clutton in twenty years, bitter, lonely, savage, and unknown; still in Paris, for the life there had got into his bones, ruling a small cenacle with a savage tongue, at war with himself and the world, producing little in his increasing passion for a perfection he could not reach; and perhaps sinking at last into drunkenness.
2 [cap] the room in which the Last Supper took place
[ETYMOLOGY: 14th Century: from Old French, from Late Latin cenaculum, from cena supper]
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