Bearded with dewy grass the mountains thrust / Their blackness high into the still grey light,

That was an extremely awkward moment. Everyone was watching.

At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.

The author has had good results with injections of thallinum sulphate, which seems to have, in his judgment, a distinct specific antigonorrhœic effect.