_On the Red Staircase_ _The House of the Wizard_ _The Cardinal’s Musketeer_ _An Imperial Lover_ _A Yankee Volunteer_ _Anne Scarlett_ _The Cobbler of Nimes_ _Little Mistress Goodhope and Other Fairy Tales_ FROM my post at the window I could look down upon the court-yard of the palace of the Boyar Kurakin. Although it was early in May, it was a cold day in Moscow, and the sun shone obliquely into the yard, cut off as it was by the walls of two houses. The black mud of winter had not dried off the centre of the court, and there was ice in the corner by the water-butts, and ice hung, too, on the north side of the roof, under the eaves, like the ragged beard of the old man of the north, Moroz Tr…
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