Excerpt from The New Galatea They had finished dinner at the Vicarage. The table had been laid for Six, it appeared, but only three had sat down - the Rev. Matthew Mansergh, his daughter Joyce, and Mr. Secretan. At a sign from her father Joyce rose and brought over the cigars. Then, with a quiet smile, which ranged indefinitely from Mr. Mansergh to Mr. Secretan, she passed out to the balcony that abutted on the dining-room. Mr. Secretan's hand fumbled clumsily in the cigar-box, for his eyes were following her. The balmy ...
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Excerpt from The New Galatea They had finished dinner at the Vicarage. The table had been laid for Six, it appeared, but only three had sat down - the Rev. Matthew Mansergh, his daughter Joyce, and Mr. Secretan. At a sign from her father Joyce rose and brought over the cigars. Then, with a quiet smile, which ranged indefinitely from Mr. Mansergh to Mr. Secretan, she passed out to the balcony that abutted on the dining-room. Mr. Secretan's hand fumbled clumsily in the cigar-box, for his eyes were following her. The balmy June evening hung dreamily over the shore land, nowhere so dreamily as upon the vicarage lawn, which, starting beneath the balcony, Sloped at a soft gradient down to the road. Beyond that, and separated by a fair margin for wheel trafiic, ran the esplanade, dotted with infrequent lights which twinkled away into gradual darkness on the left, and on the right blazed out into the constellated brightness of the newly-built Handon pier, the pride and glory Of the flourishing little island town. The strains of an excellent military band and the laughter of light-hearted promenaders contrasted rather irreverently with the solemn boom of the outgoing Solent tide. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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