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Giles found that the boy, in his zeal to make things look bright, had smeared the chairs with some greasy furniture polish and refrained from rubbing it dry, in order not to diminish the mirror-like effect that the mixture produced as laid on. Giles apologized and scolded the boy, but he felt that the fates were against him.

He watched Winterborne out of sight under the boughs, where cobwebs glistened in the now clearing air, lengthening and shortening their shine like elastic needles; he saw the woodpigeons rise as Giles drove past them; (...)