There is a tide

By J. C. SNAITH
THERE IS A TIDE ARAMINTA THE VAN ROON THE COUNCIL OF SEVEN THE ADVENTUROUS LADY THE UNDEFEATED THE SAILOR THE TIME SPIRIT THE COMING ANNE FEVERSHAM
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Publishers New York
THERE IS A TIDE
BY J. C. SNAITH AUTHOR OF “THE VAN ROON,” “THE SAILOR,” “THE UNDEFEATED,” ETC.
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COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
THERE IS A TIDE
THERE IS A TIDE
SO this was England.
A slight, pretty girl, in a corner seat of the boat express, was looking out of the window. To her everything was new and odd and a face curiously expressive was quick to register its emotions.
All was on a scale so much less than the land from which she had come. The neatly parcelled acres somehow reminded her of Noah’s ark. Farmsteads trim and tiny; amusing hedgerows; the cattle and horses in the fields; the comic little villages, each with its moss-grown church tower peering through the damp mist, were so expected and yet so unnatural to the eye of a stranger that it was rather like a scene in a play.