changelier

Updated: May 26, 2025

But you can take it from me, the end she met with would surprise you." Shortly after, Claire's door quietly opened, and Cora, with a lighted taper in her hand, tiptoed cautiously in, like a young torch-bearing avant-courrière, behind whom Mrs. Slawson, laden with a wonderful tray, advanced processionally. "Light the changelier, an' then turn it low," Martha whispered.

Julie Mathilde Lippmann - Martha By-the-Day