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"This son of mine was a self-willed youth, always too ready to utter his unchastised fancies. He got the spur when he should have had the rein. He, therefore, helped to fill the markets with that unripe fruit which abounds in the marts of his native country. " -- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
Felix had been sent by his employers up to Basingstoke Station to bring down some parcels of rivets and special nails arriving by goods train that evening. As he stood on the platform waiting, the boat train from Southampton came rushing in, and stopped to put down a solitary passenger. This was a tall, wiry, hatchet-faced man, of about forty, with black hair, brown skin, and soft, melting dark brown eyes -- eyes you would not have expected to see in that face, unless you were familiar with the Slav type.