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think of everything but what I was seeing, as, being about to becoing to the large

range of glass buildings

A warm sweet-scented puff of air saluted me as I raised the copper latch

of the door, and found

canes trained froe, while, onderful regularity, large bunches like inverted

cones of great black grapes hung suspended fros

There were rows of black iron pipes along the sides from which rose a

soft heat, and the effect of this was visible in the rich juicy-looking

berries covered with a pearly bloom, while from succulent shoot, leaf,

and tendril rose the delicious scent that had saluted lass palace of a house, as it seemed to me, I went down into

a far hotter place, where the walls ashed and the glass roof

very low There was a peculiar odour of tan here, and as I closed the

door after reeted et all other sensations,

for there all along the centre hat seeht of the old story that they bloo it was since

one of these spiky-leaved plants had blossoh they were, for I had entered a large pinery where fruits

were ripening and others co on in the most beautiful manner, while

what struck me most was the perfection and neatness of all the place