Modern Review February 1917

There was the usual hub-bub the crowd the servants upper and under bending more or less low according to their rank ti3e differences of opinion as to whether or not we had improved the snatching and coddling of little B— by all the girls of tile house the gathering round the talalc and finally bath and breakfast arld Aji the ram. [...] The 111.61(Av in front of the 1111TH wat..r tail ;t4 paced about it suddenly struck me that I ought to offer the shelter of the house to the magistrate. [...] horizon 4 but what shall I tell of the: wonders of the beauty which the world took on thereafter ? At the extreme edge of the fields wawa fringe of trees and there the play of dim purples and reds wrought such an enchants ing vagueness —it seemed to picture the -- very home of the spirit of Evening where she retires at the end of the day languidly to east aside her ruby mantle deftly to lig [...] The silence was as vast as the expanse of the &Ids broken linly by the ela.intive cries of a bird alarmed try my passing to close to its nest in the stubble. [...] as usual ; and a little whik ago the shup-shup of the brooms and the splashing of water and the tinkling of the plates showed that they were busy in sweeping and cleaning and washing and scouring.