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Updated: May 15, 2025
At what you called 'candle-lightin' time, wherever I was in strange drawing-rooms, on rushing express trains, on ships plowing the seas, sitting about camp-fires in the wilderness I'd always seem to see that little, dim-lit room in your New York, and you kneeling beside me on the hearth-rug, with the firelight on your face and hair.
I've comforted myself, before, with the dream that some day I might get back to New York, to that little room at candle-lightin' time, and find you again, and forget everything in all the world but that you were there and I was with you, kneeling on the hearth-rug and making toast for tea. And when I saw you, all white and silver glitter, talking to the King the dream was gone.
So they had another beautiful hour, at what Godmother loved to speak of as "candle-lightin' time," and while Mary Alice was in the kitchen cutting bread to toast, Godmother and her guest made notes in tiny note-books. "There!" she said, when she had written the Gramercy Park address in his book. "Anything you send here will always reach her, wherever she is."
That's why he likes to come here; I try to help him forget, for an hour, once in a while, at 'candle-lightin' time." "I see," murmured Mary Alice. The man was one of those great world-powers of finance whose transactions filled columns of the newspapers and were familiar to almost every school child.
Rosenbaum says that he knows it for a fact that 3,000 negroes have been worked on the forts ever since Bragg retreated there last January." "Well, 25 miles isn't far to go for a fight," returned Shorty. "All that I ask is that the 200th Ind. be given the advance. We'll make schedule time to ward Shelbyville, and bring on the fight before early candle-lightin' to-morrow evening."
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