The Keys of the Kingdom
“The China Incident ‘October 1923. Yesterday the cable came cancelling my trip to Rome and I have just returned from my evening walk by the river-bank where I stood a long time in a soft mist watching the cormorant fishers. It is a sad way of catching fish, or perhaps I had a sad way of looking at it. The great birds are ringed by the neck to prevent their swallowing the fish. They crouch indolently on the gunwhale of the boat as though dreadfully bored with the whole proceeding. Suddenly there ...is a dip and a splutter and up comes the great bill, pouched with fish, a tail wriggling at the tip. An embarrassing undulation of the neck follows next. When relieved of their catch the birds shake their heads, disconsolate, yet as though experience had taught them nothing. Then they squat again, brooding blackly, recuperating for a fresh defeat.
‘My own mood was dark and defeated enough, God knows. As I stood by the salty water, from which the night threw waves upon the weed coiled like hair upon the shore, my thoughts, strangely, were not of Rome but of the streams of Tweedside, with myself, barefoot in the rippling crystal, casting a withy rod for trout.MoreLess
‘My own mood was dark and defeated enough, God knows. As I stood by the salty water, from which the night threw waves upon the weed coiled like hair upon the shore, my thoughts, strangely, were not of Rome but of the streams of Tweedside, with myself, barefoot in the rippling crystal, casting a withy rod for trout.MoreLess
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