Re-Image Publishing

a bell rang there with a lively, cheerful note, although the sound was painful too, and made his heart quail momentarily as if threatened with getting what it vaguely desired.

‘One ought not to judge too early.

‘The fact is, and just between you and me, I really am not powerful. As a result I probably feel no less respect for the powerful than you do, but I am not as honest as you and won’t always admit it.’

He fetched the straw mattress

shook their heads

gnarled walkingstick within reach

mingling of malice and caution

‘One ought not to judge too early.

Then he ordered more mineral water, hurriedly downing glass after glass.

during his months of incarceration he must have paced in just this way, like a caged animal,