The Wanderer in Unknown Realms
“The business of the Maulding family had been in the hands of Quayle and his predecessors for generations, and Quayle’s grandfather had supervised the purchase of Bromdun Hall at the beginning of the last century. It was good fortune that the meticulous records of the firm included a detailed drawing of Maulding’s house, but I thought I was due a little good fortune at last.
I bought a copy of The Times on High Holborn. It was dated 12 November. Fawnsley had not been lying. I had never really thought he was.
The city seemed to close in on me as I walked, so that only the will of God prevented its buildings from toppling down and burying the populace in rubble. It might have been a blessing for some, for the men and women on the streets struck me as particularly restive and churlish, oppressed by a lowering sky and an unseasonable heat that had arisen in the early hours.
Some way past Chancery Lane, an omnibus had misjudged the corner and struck a deliveryman’s cart, seriously injuring ...his horse so that the poor animal lay whinnying miserably on the ground, one of its back legs twisted so badly that the femur had erupted through its coat.MoreLess
I bought a copy of The Times on High Holborn. It was dated 12 November. Fawnsley had not been lying. I had never really thought he was.
The city seemed to close in on me as I walked, so that only the will of God prevented its buildings from toppling down and burying the populace in rubble. It might have been a blessing for some, for the men and women on the streets struck me as particularly restive and churlish, oppressed by a lowering sky and an unseasonable heat that had arisen in the early hours.
Some way past Chancery Lane, an omnibus had misjudged the corner and struck a deliveryman’s cart, seriously injuring ...his horse so that the poor animal lay whinnying miserably on the ground, one of its back legs twisted so badly that the femur had erupted through its coat.MoreLess
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