The chambers stood much higher than the other houses, commanding a hundred chimneys--crooked cowls that looked like sitting cats as they swung round, and other uncouth brick and zinc mysteries supported by iron stanchions and clamped by 8-pieces.

Northward the lights of Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square threw a copper-coloured glare above the black roofs, and southward by all the orderly lights of the Thames.

A train rolled out across one of the railway bridges, and its thunder drowned for a minute the dull roar of the streets.

The Nilghai looked at his watch and said shortly, 'That's the Paris night-mail.

You can book from here to St.Petersburg if you choose.' Dick crammed head and shoulders out of the window and looked across the river.