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The Three Cities Trilogy

PART IV
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I want to walk a little, and I'll see you home.

It's agreed, eh?
You will find me here." The young priest had to cross two rooms, one hung with yellow and the other with blue, before he at last reached the mirrored _salon_.

This was really an exquisite example of the _rococo_ style, a rotunda as it were of pale mirrors framed with superb gilded carvings.

Even the ceiling was covered with mirrors disposed slantwise so that on every side things multiplied, mingled, and appeared under all possible aspects.

Discreetly enough no electric lights had been placed in the room, the only illumination being that of some pink tapers burning in a pair of candelabra.


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