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Updated: September 14, 2025
He knew little about Carroll's antecedents, but his companion was obviously a man of education, and they had been staunch comrades for the last three years. They had plodded through leagues of rain-swept bush, had forded icy rivers, had slept in wet fern and sometimes slushy snow, and had toiled together with pick and drill.
"Well, the thing I'd like to have explained is come over here to the window a minute, will you, Algy?" Mr. Spofford came, and gazed down upon a dispiriting area of rain-swept street and bedraggled wayfarers. "See that ten-story office building across the way?" pursued Average Jones.
The boat turned in mid-stream and shot swiftly up the river, past the black fortress with its scattered sentry lights, where slept a garrison in sweet ignorance of the tragedy that was to come upon them when the sun was high. The lights of the city itself soon peeped down into the rain-swept waters; music from the distant cafés came faintly to the ears of the midnight voyagers.
Leaving the door ajar, then, he turned to one of the front windows, parted its draperies, and peered out, over the little garden and through the iron ribs of the gate, to the street, where a single gas-lamp, glimmering within a dull golden halo of mist, made visible the scant length of the impasse Stanislas, empty, rain-swept, desolate. The rain persisted with no hint of failing purpose....
I can picture his satisfaction on hearing it." "Golly, Dick, that's no mopoke!" was Purdy's comment as they emerged into the rain-swept street. "A crafty devil, if ever I see'd one." "Henry Ocock seems to me to be a singularly able man," replied Mahony drily.
Stafford laughed shortly as he looked at the rain-swept hills round which the two good horses were taking the well-appointed phaeton. "Oh, I knew you would come," he said. "It was just this way. You know the governor wrote and asked me to come down to this new place of his at Bryndermere "
Always ready to query, to examine motives, she asked herself whether this were not, after all, merely a species of vanity in her that wanted to hold and save this helpless man who, it seemed, could not live for a day without her. And she got no answer to the question the black water rushed past, chill and pitiless: the rain-swept sky was starless, the streaming decks deserted.
Somehow they slept, and, though this was more difficult, got upon their feet again when morning came, for of all the hard things the wanderer in rain-swept bush or frozen wilderness must bear there is none that tests his powers more than the bracing himself for another day of effort in the early dawn.
By this time he had led her down the narrow, tunnel-like passageway and was helping her up into the rain-swept street. "Whatever happens, remember that I'm behind you!" he repeated.
As the reverberation dies away and the clouds are pierced by the sun, the world is seen in new lights through an air clear as upon rain-swept mountains. As my reading is incessant, so also is my writing. For the happiness of man is in his fertility, and of barrenness comes the worst despair.
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