![]() ![]() The slim one got up and walked straight at me- still knitting with downcast eyes-and only just as I began to think of getting out of her way, as you would for a somnambulist, stood still, and looked up. Two women, one fat and the other slim, sat on straw-bottomed chairs, knitting black wool. ![]() I slipped through one of these cracks, went up a swept and ungarnished staircase, as arid as a desert, and opened the first door I came to. ‘A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar. They were going to run an over-sea empire, and make no end of coin by trade. No eloquence could have been so withering to ones belief in mankind as his final burst of sincerity. It was the biggest thing in the town, and everybody I met was full of it. I had no difficulty in finding the Company’s offices. ![]() In a very few hours I arrived in a city that always makes me think of a whited sepulchre. ‘I flew around like mad to get ready, and before forty-eight hours I was crossing the Channel to show myself to my employers, and sign the contract. ![]()
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