From which you may gather that Professor Spence was a bachelor, comparatively young; that he was of a retiring disposition and the object of considerable unsolicited attention in his own home town.
He arose cautiously from the keg of nails.

It might be well to return to the boatshed, even at the risk of falling into the Inlet.

But he had not proceeded very far before, suddenly, as he had hoped it would, the mist began to lift.

Swiftly, before the puff of a warmer breeze, it eddied and thinned.

Its soundless, impalpable pressure lessened.