He paused to interrogate a tortoiseshell kitten that was dozing in a corner of the sofa.

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"No, " one staffer in tortoiseshell glasses replied when asked whether she planned to attend a match.

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He's going to stick with the nice, new tortoiseshell glasses he just bought.

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Yet at the center of the group was a fragile-looking, diminutive woman in a crisp white shalwar kameez, a neat black jacket, and heavy tortoiseshell spectacles, named Asma Jilani Jahangir.

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