The Winged Victory - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1154889653 ISBN 13 : 9781154889659

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London terminus as if it meant to leap the end platform and make a dash for liberty through the waiting-rooms out into the world beyond; but it pulled up just in time, and with a jerk, as if it had suddenly changed its mind. The huge engine, still panting and snorting with excitement, stood breasting the buffers proudly, the winner of a great race, a race against time; and elderly, affluent, fidgety gentlemen, of a punctual habit, returning their watches to their pockets, congratulated themselves and each other on a splendid run from Closeminster. Standing on the platform, awaiting the arrival of the train, was a man answering to this description in every respect save one. A man of forty, he looked elderly though not old, his whole appearance proclaimed him affluent, and the time of his arrival, with a few minutes to spare, vouched for a punctual habit; but he was not fidgety. Decided and eminently discreet are the words which best describe him. On entering the station he had placed himself so that any one arriving by the expected train must pass him on the way out. Standing where he did, there was no possibility of missing the person he had come to meet, if he knew that person by sight. And having taken up this position, he stood with his hands resting on the handle of his neat umbrella, glancing about him indifferently. Not a flicker of expression disturbed his face. The most intelligent observer, versed in the subtle signs by which the inner man is apt involuntarily to make evident the workings of his mind and betray his feelings, would have been at fault.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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• ISBN 10: 1154889653
• ISBN 13: 9781154889659
• Reliure: Broché