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Updated: May 18, 2025
'It's seasonable, Priscilla pointed out. Her glance rested on a sprig of holly that was tied under the gas-chandelier, unique relic of Christmas in the apartment. Another pause. It would be hazardous to guess what their feelings were; perhaps their feelings were scarcely anything at all. 'And what be the news? Toby inquired, with what passes in the Five Towns for geniality.
If we could have looked out through the eyes of these dreamers, we should have seen their tidy little wooden house disappear, and two-story brick with a cast-iron fence in front of it take its place; we should have seen a three-globed gas-chandelier grow down from the parlor ceiling; we should have seen the homely rag carpet turn to noble Brussels, a dollar and a half a yard; we should have seen the plebeian fireplace vanish away and a recherche, big base-burner with isinglass windows take position and spread awe around.
Death has driven it away and left something quite different. Let us go." Julian got up. Valentine took up the candle from its place beside the curling-pins and lifted his hand to the gas-chandelier. He had turned out one of the burners, and was just going to turn out the two others when Julian checked him. "No; leave them. Let the landlord put them out. Leave him in the light."
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