On such an afternoon, if ever, the Lord High Chancellor ought to be sitting her--as here he is--with a foggy glory round his head, softly fenced in with crimson cloth and curtains, addressed by a large advocate with great whiskers, a little voice, and an interminable brief, and outwardly directing his contemplation to the lantern in the roof, where he can see nothing but
fog. On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be--as here they are--mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee-deep in technicalities, running their goat-hair and horsehair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might.
The
fog that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they were descending.
If you think it ain't dismal and lone- some out in a
fog that way by yourself in the night, you try it once -- you'll see.
The shrill little whistle, like the chirping of a cricket amid the cries of great beasts, shot through the
fog from more to the side and swiftly grew faint and fainter.
The steps grew louder, and through the
fog, as through a curtain, there stepped the man whom we were awaiting.
This day comes in with thick
fog. Caught a few fish.
Bazzard returned, accompanied by two waiters--an immovable waiter, and a flying waiter; and the three brought in with them as much
fog as gave a new roar to the fire.
On the other hand in the case of (2) the Physician, though I shall here also see a line (D'A'E') with a bright centre (A'), yet it will shade away LESS RAPIDLY into dimness, because the sides(A'C', A'B') RECEDE LESS RAPIDLY INTO THE
FOG: and what appear to me the Physician's extremities, viz.
"Here has the cunning Frenchman been posting a picket directly in our path," he said; "red-skins and whites; and we shall be as likely to fall into their midst as to pass them in the
fog!"
Breast, throat, face, were wet; the clothing was saturated; drops of water, condensed from the
fog, studded the hair and mustache.
The wind suddenly shifted to the northeast, and the remnant of the sea
fog melted in the blast.
Next a smoky
fog of clouds covered the whole region densely, and we took to the railway-ties to keep from getting lost.