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Updated: June 27, 2025
'Very odd! said Mr. Winkle; 'I'll be down directly. He hurriedly wrapped himself in a travelling-shawl and dressing-gown, and proceeded downstairs. An old woman and a couple of waiters were cleaning the coffee-room, and an officer in undress uniform was looking out of the window. He turned round as Mr. Winkle entered, and made a stiff inclination of the head.
"All in the dark!" exclaimed Mrs. Aylett, at the door. "And what a stifling odor of chloroform!" Mabel got up, and drew a heavy travelling-shawl that covered Herbert's lower limbs over his arms and chest. "I will open the window!" she said, deprecatingly. A sluice of cold air rushed in, beating the blaze this way and that, puffing ashes from the hearth into the room, and eliciting from Mrs.
Three or four with the benediction still on them, come down in the same car with him; he hands her travelling-shawl after one as she springs from the omnibus into her husband's arms; there are two or three walking back and forth with their new lords upon the porch of the hotel; at supper they are on every side of him, and he feels himself suffused, as it were, by a roseate atmosphere of youth and love and hope.
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