But then, it was one thing to give a country town something and another to force the town council into accepting it.

The lamp-posts, also of wood, stood irregularly apart, often less than a hundred feet, and sometimes more, lighting nothing but their immediate vicinity.

Fitzgerald could see the lamps, plainly, but could separate none of the objects round or beneath.

That is why he did not see the face of the man who passed him in a hurry.

He never forgot a face, if it were a man's; his only difficulty was in placing it at once.