The Flying Inn
Book Description
The sea was a pale elfin green and the afternoon had already felt the fairy touch of evening as a young woman with dark hair, dressed in a crinkly coppercoloured sort of dress of the artistic order, was walking rather listlessly along the parade of Pebblewickon-S ea, trailing a parasol and looking out upon the seas horizon. She had a reason for looking instinctively out at the sea-line; a reason t...
MoreThe sea was a pale elfin green and the afternoon had already felt the fairy touch of evening as a young woman with dark hair, dressed in a crinkly coppercoloured sort of dress of the artistic order, was walking rather listlessly along the parade of Pebblewickon-S ea, trailing a parasol and looking out upon the seas horizon. She had a reason for looking instinctively out at the sea-line; a reason that many young women have had in the history of the world. But there was no sail in sight. On the beach below the parade were a succession of small crowds, surrounding the usual orators of the seaside; whether niggers or socialists, whether clowns or clergymen. Here would stand a man doing something or other with paper boxes; and the holiday makers would watch him for hours in the hope of some time knowing what it was that he was doing with them. Next to him would be a man in a top hat with a very big Bible and a very small wife, who stood silently beside him, while he fought with his clenched fist against the heresy of Milnian Sublapsarianism so wide-spread in fashionable watering-places.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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