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"Ah! woe that youth should love to be / Like this swift Thames that speeds so fast, / And is so fain to find the sea, -- / That leaves this maze of shadow and sleep, / These creeks down which blown blossoms creep, / For breakers of the homeless deep. " / -- EDMUND GOSSE.
The little river steamer, with its gay awning, was hitched up to the Speaker's Stairs. The Lestranges were standing at the gangway welcoming their guests. There was a crowd watching along the parapet of Westminster Bridge just above.