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Updated: May 13, 2025
It was, after all, absurdly easy, as Bill had promised; and the easier by help of the river-fog, which by nine o'clock the hour agreed upon had gathered to a thick grey consistency.
But the hotel lacked customers, and the houses wanted tenants; and the whole affair threatened to fall a prey to river-fog and mildew, when the Babel and Lowriver Steam Navigation Company came to the rescue, and placed it upon a permanent and expansive footing. Of the original constitution of this snug company, it is not easy to say anything with certainty.
She dressed herself silently before the mirror, looking out through the window at the grey river-fog that fell gloomily across the water and Janet lay in bed, her hands crossed behind her head, a cigarette hanging between her lips and the smoke curling up past her eyes. The school of Art did not open until eleven o'clock that morning. Sally had to be at the office at nine.
At any rate, Rufus had no sooner left home, than she insisted on the three sisters coming to relieve her loneliness in other words, in removing them from the thin ill-built frame house, gaping in every seam with the effects of weather, and with damp oozing up between every board of the floor, the pestiferous river-fog, the close air of the forest, and the view of the phantom trees, now decaying and falling one against another.
Kendal, as she went back to the drawing-room. 'Gone to listen for nightingales! 'Nightingales! How could you let them go into the river-fog? 'Emily was bent upon it; she is too much of a bride not to have her way. 'Umph! I wonder Sophy was so foolish. They came back in a quarter of an hour.
"You can take this ring of mine, and by its aid go through the whole legion, and obtain the best horses for flight, before anything is discovered. Your conscience need not trouble you. You will only have done as I earnestly requested." The cold sweat started to Drusus's forehead, his head swam; he knew that it was more than the mist of the river-fog that drifted before his eyes.
He arrived there early and Patsy met him, equipped for a walk, rain or shine, sleet or brooding river-fog it made no matter to Patsy. The two set off into the park, where they talked for a couple of hours indeed till the approach of the luncheon hour warned them that the Princess, having descended, might be expected to miss her young companion.
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