During his visit, Mr Powell ruled more or less in Mr Sharon's favour, calling for a slightly-reduced seven-day period of complete quiet, to be followed by the full six-week chill.

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But freshly dressed for her winter holidays, stately windows wreathed against the chill and catawba branches flickering in torchlight, the town displays an array of cozy-clapboard imagery so complete, that the effect is as comfortable as Dickens.

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