A
Madeira
Party
By
S. Weir Mitchell
M.D., LL.D. (Harv.)
Author of "Characteristics"
"When all the Woods are Green"
Etc., Etc.
New York
The Century Co.
1895
Copyright, 1895,
By THE CENTURY CO.
THE DEVINNE PRESS.
CONTENTS
A MADEIRA PARTY
"A LITTLE MORE BURGUNDY"
A MADEIRA PARTY
Sometime early in the secondquarter of the century, in theCity of Penn, and in what wasthen known as Delaware-Fourthstreet, soon after dusk in theevening, occurred the unimportantevents of which I shall speak.
The room was paneled inwhite three feet up from thefloor, and above this a fox-huntwas repeated in lively colorson every square of the paperwhich covered the walls. Greathickory logs, ablaze on the deephearth, cast rosy light on amantelpiece, in the style of theDirectory, pretty with Cupids inrelief dragging chariots througha tangle of roses. A similarpattern on the ceiling resembledwhat a visitor to the ZoölogicalGardens may see to-day in thesmall yellow house called"Solitude," where Mr. Penn is BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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