Yes, the whole thing was reasonable." "And they are going to drag the canal," Elizabeth said thoughtfully.
"A difficult business," he assured her.

"It is one of the most ghastly, ill-constructed, filthiest strips of water you ever looked upon.

It has been the garbage depository of the villages through which it makes its beastly way, for generations.

I don't envy the men who have to handle the drags." "You do not believe, then, that they will find anything--interesting ?" He shrugged his shoulders.
"That type of man," he continued, "must have a morbid mind.

There will be dead animals without a doubt, worn-out boots, filthy and decomposed articles of clothing--" "Don't!" she interrupted.