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Kate Clephane was wakened, as usual, by the slant of Riviera sun across / her bed.
It was the thing she liked best about her shabby cramped room in the / third-rate Hôtel de Minorque et de l'Univers: that the morning sun came / in at her window, and yet that it didn't come too early.