Produced by Suzanne Shell, Patricia A. Benoy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. It was after dinner in the drawing-room. From the cold of the early spring night, closed shutters and drawn curtains carefully protected us; shaded lamps and a wood fire diffused an exquisite twilight; we breathed a mild and even balmy atmosphere scented with hothouse flowers.…
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