The Patagonia

By: James, Henry

The houses were dark in the August night and the perspective of Beacon Street, with its double chain of lamps, was a foreshortened desert. The club on the hill alone, from its semi-cylindrical front, projected a glow upon the dusky vagueness of the Common, and as I passed it I heard in the hot stillness the click of a pair of billiard-balls. As "every one" was out of town perhaps the servants, in the extravagance of their leisure, were profaning the tables. The heat was insufferable and I thought with joy of the morrow, of the deck of the steamer, the freshening breeze, the sense of getting out to sea. I was even glad of what I had learned in the afternoon at the office of the company-that at the eleventh hour an old ship with a lower standard of speed had been put on in place of the vessel in which I had taken my passage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08R4F8S8L
• ISBN13: 9798584235604
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.2" x 5.0"