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Excerpt from The Madonna of the Future, Vol. 2 of 2: And Other Tales
IT was at Homburg, several years ago, before the gaming had been suppressed. The evening was very warm, and all the world was gathered on the terrace of the Kursaal and the esplanade below it, to listen to the excellent orchestra or half the world, rather, for the crowd was equally dense in the gaming rooms, around the tables. Everywhere the crowd was great. The night was perfect, the season was at its height, the open windows of the Kursaal sent long shafts of unnatural light into the dusky vol. II. B.
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