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Miriam extended herself on the drawing-room sofa which had been drawn up at the end of the room under the open window.
The quintets of candles on the girandoles hanging on either side of the high overmantel gave out an unflickering radiance, and in the centre of the large room the chandelier, pulled low, held out in all directions bulbs of softly tinted light.