The Winds of the World: Seven Love Stories

Excerpt from The Winds of the World: Seven Love Stories

To-night the majority of these, being, in spite of their mystery, of no uncommon clay, gazed on the crowded harbour, and, catching the spirit of excitement, had saved the price of oil and tallow dip, to join the throng in the tavern and gain, so they considered, a fairer exchange for their pence. Beneath one door only a faint line of light broke the depressing gloom, and the mur mur of voices, or an occasional hollow cough, spoke of life within.

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