This is a summer village mainly, and it is unusual to see lights in the houses after the fall has come and gone. But in this winter weekend, per 【M1】______ haps because the new snow, people have come back, and the windows of 【M2】______ the houses beam. ! am accustomed to walk the length of the street after 【M3】______ dinner in near total darkness, so it makes up for a happy surprise, this 【M4】______ sudden brightening. In the dead black cold of night, the windows seem to shiver at gold and amber-strong and beautiful assertions of the light. 【M5】______ Did I mention that is a Valentine'?. Of course, I really could be somewhere, at any time. ! could be a 【M6】______ traveler in 19th century Russia, for instance, tromp from village to village 【M7】______ in some unspecified romantic errand, crushing the thick-caked snow under 【M8】______ my boots and taking courage to the lights of the candles in the cottages, if 【M9】______ you catch my drift. Winter lights have much the same as power the world 【M10】______ over. 【M1】