Bracebridge Hall; Or, The Humorists. A Medley, Том 1

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Carey & Lea, 1835
 

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Страница 88 - ... before him ; and the candle seemed to fall asleep too, for the wick grew long, and black, and cabbaged at the end, and dimmed the little light that remained in the chamber. The gloom that now prevailed was contagious. Around hung the shapeless, and almost spectral, box-coats of departed travellers, long since buried in deep sleep.
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