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"Life struck sharp on death makes awful lightning. " E. B. BROWNING.
Cherton is the station for Bramleigh; a small station with a small shelter on the "down" side. When Nevil Sinclair alighted -- heart-sick and travel-sick, after interminable hours of ceaseless, and almost sleepless, rushing through space -- it was raining, uneffusively, yet persistently, as it can rain in July. The clouds hung low and positive, here thinned to a whitish-grey, there heavy with unshed tears. No bustling wind threatened to interrupt their superfluous zeal for earth and trees and new-mown hay already saturate to repletion. They wore a settled, sullen look, as if they meant to stay there on and off for days.