The Sinful Stones
“The line where sea met sky was quite clear under the scouring wind, which hissed round an ill-fitting pane like a groom rubbing a horse down—the draggled pony that had pulled the Clapham Patent Bread Company van and had been stabled behind the Pakenham Arms, where old Simon the pot-boy had inexpertly tended the poor beast in preparation for the dream time coming when he’d go and live in the country and have a farm of his own. Hinges creaked.
“Ready?” said Brother Providence’s donnish voice....
“I hope nobody was badly hurt,” said Pibble.
“Hurt?”
“I thought a stone had fallen on someone’s ankle—Gavin’s.”
“Alas, Superintendent, one forgets how to think in these terms. God has chosen to punish us by breaking the leg of a strong workman. Compared with the shock of that the hurt is nothing, an illusion of fallen matter.”
And the iodine was nothing.MoreLess
“Ready?” said Brother Providence’s donnish voice....
“I hope nobody was badly hurt,” said Pibble.
“Hurt?”
“I thought a stone had fallen on someone’s ankle—Gavin’s.”
“Alas, Superintendent, one forgets how to think in these terms. God has chosen to punish us by breaking the leg of a strong workman. Compared with the shock of that the hurt is nothing, an illusion of fallen matter.”
And the iodine was nothing.MoreLess
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