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Excerpt from Bound in Shallows: A Novel
HE knew that they were talking of him talking with heat and force and an accent of argument. He could not, indeed, hear what they were saying, for a lusty wind of late May whirred in the great beeches under which he sat, somewhat off from the pale brown bulk of the big, ruinous hotel, and the murmur of the leaves mixed confusedly with the cries of a blue-jay, flashing skyey gleams from branch to branch. Children, too, were shouting; a dog barked shrilly in the yard of some little dwelling below the cliff, while from the uh seen railway tracks at the brow of the hill, where workmen were putting in new ties, came a dull sound of hammering, which reduced to mere intonations the voices of the two elderly men on the hotel porch. These intonations, however, conveyed a full and perfect assurance of diverging opinions; and if Dillon had required further evidence that his uncle and the president of the mill were not at one concerning him, he might have found it in the very attitude of the talkers and in the drift of their occasional gestures. But Dillon did not need any such corroboration; he knew very well what it all meant. His mind was quite free from curiosity, and he was sen sible of feeling nothing very clearly except a sickish sense of pity for his uncle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.