I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
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I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

— Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
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