Excerpt from The Risen Dead, Vol. 1 of 2: A Novel
A crowd of foreigners were warmly discussing some subject of interest in a salle a fumer in the "Hotel des Papilons" in Homburg, and a young Englishman, with a cigar between his lips, was leaning against a pillar and listening to their conversation. It was a hot night in September, and it was late. The gaming-houses had closed, and dark, thunderous-looking clouds, with a warning of rain, had driven the most reckless spirits indoors. There they had broken up into clusters.
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