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Read & copy
“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?”
Meaning & context
Mr Harding’s delight in a sofa, books and coffee turns an ordinary London room into temporary luxury through comfort, leisure and changed perspective.
Source details
The Warden, Project Gutenberg #619. The narrator describes Mr Harding settling into Tom Towers’s comfortable rooms after an exhausting day; this is comic fictional narration, not a claim about universal happiness.