Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches Story 5 - The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids: The Paradise of Bachelors

In which a charming sanctuary for the unwed gentleman is discovered within the ancient precincts of London’s Temple, where the modern-day Templars, no longer warriors but cultivated lawyers, share convivial dinners marked by wit, wine, and quiet brotherhood. In a stark contrast of scene and spirit, a solitary journey leads through the icy and forbidding passes of Woedolor Mountain to a remote paper-mill nestled in the wild mountain gorge known as the Devil’s Dungeon.