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The Morgesons

CHAPTER XIV
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And everything stands on a mat.

I wonder if this is to be my room ?" "It is probably the chamber for visitors.

Why, these are beautiful pillow-cases, too," she exclaimed, as she put her head on the pillow.
"Come to bed; don't read." I had taken up a red morocco-bound book, which was lying alone on the bureau.

It was Byron, and turning over the leaves till I came to Don Juan, I read it through, and began Childe Harold, but the candle expired.

I struck out my hands through the palpable darkness, to find the bed without disturbing mother, whose soul was calmly threading the labyrinth of sleep.


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