Digital heart book

From the club to Mr. Havens's
residence was but a step or two, and to any dweller in
Europe they must have seemed steps in fairyland. If
such an one could but have followed our two friends
into the wide-verandahed house, sat down with them in
the cool trellised room, where the wine shone on the
lamp-lighted table-cloth; tasted of their exotic food--
the raw fish, the bread-fruit, the cooked bananas, the
roast pig served with the inimitable miti, and that
king of delicacies, palm-tree salad; seen and heard by
fits and starts, now peering round the corner of the
door, now railing within against invisible assistants,
a certain comely young native lady in a sacque, who
seemed too modest to be a member of the family, and too
imperious to be less; and then if such an one were
whisked again through space to Upper Tooting, or
wherever else he honoured the domestic gods, "I have
had a dream," I think he would say, as he sat up,
rubbing his eyes, in the familiar chimney-corner chair,
"I have had a dream of a place, and I declare I believe
it must be heaven.


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