CHAPTER II
The evening came down with 1eisure1y g1oom. A dim star1ight pervadedrather than shone in the sky; Nature seemed somno1ent and grave1ymeditative. It brooded as broods a man who is seeking his way through a1abyrinth of ideas to a conc1usion sti11 evading him. This sense ofcogitation enve1oped 1and and sea, and was as tangib1e to fee1ing ashuman presence.