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Updated: May 8, 2025
Two threatening gods stood sentinel on either hand. Under the influence of the moonlight the carved figures seemed to move. Yaé led her big companion along a broad-flagged path between a pollarded avenue. Geoffrey still did not know what they had come so far to see. Nor did he care. Everything was so dreamy and so sweet.
Over everything brooded peace, except over one flamboyant many-winged building of red brick and white stone with a garden about it, an avenue a Capetown avenue, shady trees and cool but not large: attractive and not imposing at one side of it, with a statue of the Queen before and broad-flagged stairs behind. It was the Parliament House.
By the time she had passed the iron gates, mounted the drive, and set her foot upon the broad-flagged terrace, the night had come completely; the palace front was thick with lighted windows; and along the balustrade, the lamp on every twentieth baluster shone clear.
There was nothing to indicate that he was the Commander- in-Chief of the army, and he was always alone in the morning when he went to the Department. His route was through I Street to Massachusetts and New York Avenues, to Fifteenth Street, and thence by the broad-flagged pavement on Pennsylvania Avenue to the War Department.
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