It was still possible — perhaps it might be inevitable — for him to accept frankly the altered conditions, and avow Baldassarre's existence; but hardly without casting an unpleasant light backward on his original reticence[…]

The deepening twilight threw all into shadow, save where the everburning lamp shed its soft light around the tabernacle.

The new bed allowed my sleep to deepen.

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