The trees are much more significant." "Bulk only," he said.
She laughed cynically.
Away beyond the boulevard the thin stripes of the metals showed upon the railway-track, whose margin was crowded with little stacks of timber, beside which smoking toy engines fussed.

Then the silver string of the canal lay at random among the black heaps.

Beyond, the dwellings, very dense on the river flat, looked like black, poisonous herbage, in thick rows and crowded beds, stretching right away, broken now and then by taller plants, right to where the river glistened in a hieroglyph across the country.

The steep scarp cliffs across the river looked puny.

Great stretches of country darkened with trees and faintly brightened with corn-land, spread towards the haze, where the hills rose blue beyond grey.
"It is comforting," said Mrs.Dawes, "to think the town goes no farther.
It is only a LITTLE sore upon the country yet." "A little scab," Paul said.
She shivered.