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'A clear, frosty night. Unusual brilliance and perfection of everything visible. Earth, sky, moon, and stars, all seem cemented, riveted together by the first. Shadows of trees be across the paths, so sharp that they seemed carved in relief. You keep thinking you see dark figures endlessly cross the road at various places'.

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