NIGEL BROWNING
[CHAPTER I]
FROM ROUND THE WORLD
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks!"
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"It is my lady: Oh it is my love!
Oh that she knew she were!"—Romeo and Juliet.
"HERE, I want this luggage taken—Hallo, Pollard! You're the man for me."
"Mr. Nigel Browning!" ejaculated the porter addressed, a huge individual six feet three in height, and massive in frame, with a large face, resplendently good-humoured. He had been heaving great trunks and packing-cases out of the van, tossing one upon another, as a girl might heap together a pile of band-boxes. Now the train passed on groaning dismally after the fashion of these modern behemoths; and the platform crowd began to disperse.