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Updated: May 14, 2025
'The hot air on the cold water makes this fog, said the captain; 'it ought to clear in a little time. 'Whistle, oh! whistle, and let's get out of it, said Keller. The captain whistled again, and far and far astern the invisible twin steam-sirens answered us.
Houses and other buildings were being pulled down to make stations; great hoardings were up, enclosing spaces where work went on all day, amidst clankings and groanings of machinery, and clouds of oily-smelling steam, and where work went on all night, with more groanings and more clankings, deplorable shrieks of steam-sirens and hellish flares that might have been reflections from a burning Tophet, cast upon yet bigger and denser clouds of the oily-smelling steam.
On foggy nights, too, I can hear steam-sirens on the river. Do you know when the ducks start quacking in St. James's Park?" he asked with a laugh. "At two o'clock to the minute." Sutch listened to the story without an interruption. But halfway through the narrative he changed his attitude, and in a significant way.
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