This woman, as I said, was the last: but there were plenty of empty chairs beyond her, as if the room had been intended for a much larger collection of images.

我说的这个女人是最后一个，在她的身后，放着无数把空椅子，似乎这间屋子原来准备容纳更多的塑像。

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Picture this: a stately room full of empty chairs set up two rows deep in a semi circle.

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Sure enough, when Sinn Fein leaders arrived for the first full-fledged talks on Monday morning, they faced a collection of empty chairs.

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