There was first the Avenue,
which ran in a consciously elegant curve from the railway station into an
undeveloped wilderness of agriculture, with big, yellow brick villas on either
side, and then there was the pavement, the little clump of shops about the postoffice, and under the railway arch was a congestion of workmen’s dwellings. In each pause she could
sense his growing trepidation. She was the type that
people of every age gravitated to, naturally affable and
kind to everyone. "It's Jonathan Wild come back with a troop of constables at his heels, to search
the house," rejoined Mrs. Wood. "Be it as you please," replied Winifred. And now she was witnessing or
observing the complicated machinery of civilization through which they had
come, at length to land on the beach of her island. To walk beside him, dressed akin to him,
rucksacked and companionable, was bliss in itself; each step she took was like
stepping once more across the threshold of heaven. At any cost!
Her brothers had it practically—at least they had it far more than it seemed likely
she would unless she exerted herself with quite exceptional vigor. She
guessed that he probably slept all of three hours a night at
most. "It happened, gentlemen," pursued the Master, "on a particular occasion, about
the time I've mentioned, that the Archduke of Alsatia, the Sovereign of the
Savoy, and the Satrap of Salisbury Court, met by accident at the Cross Shovels. That was one of the
mysterious qualities of this child of the lagoon: she had always at instant service
that Oriental mask of impenetrable calm that no Occidental trick could dislodge. We’ll
find a way to survive.
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