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Updated: May 31, 2025
He walked up the stairway, four flights, and came to a long hall, which rustled and rippled and sparkled with flights of young girls eager, vivid, excited, and care-free. A few men moved about like dull-coated robins surrounded by orioles and canary birds. A bland old man with clean-shaven mouth seemed to be the proper source of information, and to him Harold stepped with his question.
But nothing but work, and successful work, could reconcile an educated and imaginative man to the monotony of a daily outlook over league after league of stony soil, thinly clothed by pallid, wiry tussocks bending under an eternal, uncompromising wind; where the only living creatures in sight might often be small lizards or a twittering grey bird miscalled a lark; or where the only sound, save the wind aforesaid, might be the ring of his horse's shoe against a stone, or the bleat of a dull-coated merino, scarcely distinguishable from the dull plain round it.
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