And if you go to the marshlands with it you will see beautiful things; there is an old town there built of lovely timbers, with ghosts in its streets.' Lady Birmingham stared.

And indeed, thinking that he might yet induce Mathieu to purchase all the remaining property, he determined to see Lepailleur and negotiate with him before even signing the deed which was to convey to Mathieu the selected marshland on the plateau.

In its ranks was the coster with his cockney speech and cockney wit, his fear of great silences and his sense of loneliness and desolation away from the flare of gas-lights and the raucous shouts of the crowds in Petticoat Laneso that when I met him in a field of Flanders with the mist and the long, flat marshlands about him he confessed to the almighty Hump.

The great cañons give me unrest, just as the long low lines of my Sussex marshland near Winchelsea give me rest.

These strange ominous sounds were caused by the heavy pieces which the enemy had brought up to the heights above the marshlands of the Aisnethe terrible 11-inch guns which outranged all pieces in the French or British lines.