tell-for

Updated: June 20, 2025

You note through it all that comes and goes, and after a day or two can tell-for yourself whither each stately ship is bound, or whence it comes. Twice a week for four hours this earthly Paradise is as a town taken by assault and given over to pillage. An excursion steamer stops at the little pier and discharges a cargo of excursionists.

James Payn - Some Private Views