The Flight (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The FlightHE war was still dragging on, yet to country eyes London showed but little change. In the Park gay dresses ¿uttered and Mrs. Logue, crossing the Row, glanced down with a touch of discomfort at her own simple costume and the little parcels that swung from her wrist. Swiftly the reaction followed and she smiled with the confidence of a woman long released from town conventions and happy in her chosen life.The crowd on the grass was beginning to thin as she made her way up the slight incline behind the statue of Achilles and found a seat in an empty row.It was one of those warm and sultry evenings more suggestive of August than of June that constantly over take the earlier part of the Season, as though the air had been exhausted already by the pleasure - seekers. Above the low arch with its screened guns, she could hear the ceaseless hum of the traffic, waves of sound that rose and fell and, cutting sharply across its bass, the shrill treble of voices and laughter. Only the trees were silent and still.They know, thought Sheila, they haven't to join in an eternal questioning of the purpose of creation. They're safe, in an age of scepticism.Her eyes sought the leafy branches, so perfect in their symmetry yet each bearing its own design, and returned to the scene before her and the human beings whose little lives and loves, and comedies of errors, were being played out like a puppet - show for these centuries - old Spectators.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.