Excerpt from They Went
You could hear the waves moaning, out yonder.
There was no escaping from the sea. It hung like a menace, they sometimes said, over the low-lying city. Day and night that pungent salty odour invaded the town; for the ocean entered up a short river-channel into its very heart, the docks; and billows dashed lustily against the huge embankment or sea-wall which, at this hour of the afternoon, would have been crowded with folk but for those gusts of rain that kept them indoors. A warm summer rain, interspersed with flashes of merry sunshine. Green things were sprouting on the plain; the mountains, further back, had veiled themselves in mists. Here, in the streets, moisture fell in glad cataracts upon the pavements and spurted up again, buffeted by the wind, against the granite shop-facades or those polished marble fronts of the nobler palaces that shone like mirrors with the wetness.
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