bridging-over

Updated: July 10, 2026

And with the change came the bridging-over period the kind of cantilever which hope thrusts out from one side of the bank of the swift-flowing stream of adversity in the belief that somebody on the other side of the chasm will build the other half, and the two form a highway leading to a change of scene and renewed prosperity. The hospitable Collector continued to be hospitable.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero