![]() ![]() I stretched out my left arm to touch it, and I was wearing a heavy gauntlet. Round windows! I looked down again and saw, a few yards away, a pair of shining black boots which appeared never to have been worn. It was not dark nor light, but a very fresh early grey air, and above me I could see small round windows, uncurtained. This is the kind of absurd notion one has when half awake but for some minutes I lay still, waking enjoying the exquisite detachment and emptiness of my mind. ![]() She was born with a girdle round her waist, they would say, to account for her misadventures. Lying there, the ridiculous thought occurred to me that I had just been born. If it came to that, I did not usually sleep in a fur rug. This was not at all usual, and drawing the fur up to my chin I lay back again to think. As I moved to cover them, there was a loud creak and I discovered that my waist was encircled with a heavy leather belt. I woke because the fur wrapped round me had slipped off my feet, which were cold. ![]()
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