I suppose I'd been expecting incredulity, raised voices, outrage of some sort. But it was worse. A blow-up I could have handled. Instead he didn't say a word, only gazed at me with a sort of grieved fubsiness, haloed by his work lamp, tools arrayed on the walls behind him like Masonic icons.

The world must construe according to its wits; this court must construe according to the law.

I know. News about the legislation might be printworthy anyway.

All but one of these major fluvial lowlands is alluvial and aggradational in nature. The largest by far is the North China plain, largely the product of the Yellow river, the Huang, and sometimes known as the Yellow plain.