![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There was a suspicion of aurora in the sky, and the delicate traceries of the window were pleasantly silhouetted.Īt some time I must have fallen quietly asleep, for I recall a distinct sense of leaving strange dreams, when the cat started violently from his placid position. I did not draw the curtains, but gazed out at the narrow north window which I faced. Seeing that Nigger-Man was with me, I shut the heavy Gothic door and retired by the light of the electric bulbs which so cleverly counterfeited candles, finally switching off the light and sinking on the carved and canopied four-poster, with the venerable cat in his accustomed place across my feet. This room was circular, very high, and without wainscotting, being hung with arras which I had myself chosen in London. That night, dispensing as usual with a valet, I retired in the west tower chamber which I had chosen as my own, reached from the study by a stone staircase and short gallery-the former partly ancient, the latter entirely restored. ![]()
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