CHAPTER XLIII
THE TURNING-POINT
JULY, 1885, TO JULY, 1886
[Greek: ou thruon, ou malachaen avemos pote, tus de megistas ae druas ae platanous oide chamai katagein.]
[Footnote: It is not the rush or mallow that the wind can lay low, but the largest oaks and plane-trees.]
Lucian in "Anthologia."