Between the Dark and the Daylight

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Between the Dark and the Daylight is a book by William Dean Howells. The contents list names, among others, A Sleep and a Forgetting, The Eidolons of Brooks Alford and A Memory that Worked Overtime. Under the heading A Sleep and a Forgetting, a passage says Matthew Lanfear had stopped off, between Genoa and Nice, at San Remo in the interest of a friend who had come over on the steamer with him.

Mr. Gerald calls to a waiter and asks for a cup and saucer, and some of this good coffee, for “our friend here”. Mrs. Yarrow, rising with rather a piteous smile, says “Then, I am a prescription!” A narrator says that of all the cemeteries seen, one was the most beautiful, because it was the simplest and humblest, and that there all the memorial tablets lay flat with the earth.

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William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells (1837 to 1920) was one of the most influential American men of letters of his era, an editor, critic, and prolific novelist. He championed literary realism, supported writers like Mark Twain, and used his own fiction to examine money, class, and conscience in American society.