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Updated: May 12, 2025
Although it consisted of but a dozen people, the dinner-party at the Abbey that night was something of a function. To begin with, the old refectory, with its stone columns and arches still standing as they were in the pre-Reformation days, lit with cunningly-arranged and shaded electric lights designed and set up by Morris, was an absolutely ideal place in which to dine.
I saw his glance held for a moment by the old English clock with its swinging pendulum and weights. It passed on to the chimney-piece loaded with antique silver, bizarre brasses, candle-snuffers and snuff-boxes. It moved over to the bust of Bill that Von Roon had given her when she was married, a miracle of cunningly-arranged shadows.
The peculiar joy of the mountain railway is that, if it is properly made, a loaded car not a toy engine; it is too rough a game for delicate, respectable engines will career from top to bottom of the system, and go this way and that as your cunningly-arranged switches determine; and afterwards and this is a wonderful and distinctive discovery you can send it back by 'lectric. What is a 'lectric?
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