V--2nd, Chapter 13, that last page still....

[alice wellintown]

Who can know, but the metaphor, a simile, does remind us of Dickens
and Miss Havisham's drawing room.

Though 1913 suggests Henry Adams, perhaps a bunch of writers living in
NYC at the time. Maybe Cather

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> What a curious image to describe the sound of the stream in Central Park:
> like a glass chandelier in an unheated wintry drawing room---in which all
> the heat is turned off suddenly and forever.....
>
> Now, take 1913.............and explicate the metaphor........................