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Now Miss Matty Jenkyns was chary of candles. We had many devices to use as few as possible. In the winter afternoons she would sit knitting for two or three hours-she could do this in the dark, or by firelight-and when I asked if I might not ring for candles to finish stitching my wristbands, she told me to keep blind man's holiday. They were usually brought in with tea; but we only burnt one at a time. As we lived in constant preparation for a friend who might in any evening (but who never did), it required some contrivance to keep our two candles of the same length, ready to be lighted, and to look as if we burnt two always. The candles too…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60520-562-5
- EAN: 9781605205625
- Produktnummer: 4402746
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D1.9 cm 512 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 512
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