The Riddle and Other Stories/The Creatures
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The Riddle and Other Stories/The Creatures

Tác giảWalter de la Mare
Trạng tháiHoàn thành
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THE CREATURESIT was the ebbing light of evening that recalled me out of my story to a consciousness of my whereabouts. I dropped the squat little red book to my knee and glanced out of the narrow and begrimed oblong window. We were skirting the eastern coast of cliffs, to the very edge of which a ploughman, stumbling along behind his two great horses, was driving the last of his dark furrows. In a cleft far down between the rocks a cold and idle sea was soundlessly laying its frigid garlands of foam. I stared over the flat stretch of waters, then turned my head, and looked with a kind of suddenness into the face of my one fellow-traveller.
He had entered the carriage, all but unheeded, yet not altogether unresented, at the last country station. His features were a little obscure in the fading day light that hung between our four narrow walls, but apparently his eyes had been fixed on my face for some little time.
He narrowed his lids at this unexpected confrontation, jerked back his head, and cast a glance out of his mirky glass at the slip of greenish-bright moon that was struggling into its full brilliance above the dun, swelling uplands.
“It's a queer experience, railway-trav

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