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I have read An Engineer’s Story, The Four-Fifteen Express, The Story of Salome, A Service of Danger, and Was it an Illusion with the Dickensians group. And plan to read the title story with the group later this summer while reading the remaining stories on my own.
I’m generally impressed by Edwards’ writing, her world building, characters and plots. Also her evident knowledge of the world.

My manner of life at that time was desultory and unsettled. I had a sorrow—no matter of what kind—and I took to rambling about Europe, not certainly in the hope of forgetting it, for I had no wish to forget, but because of the restlessness that made one place after another triste and intolerable to me.

'Young man,' he said at length, 'your story is strange and you bring strange evidence to bear upon it. It may be as you say; it may be that you are the dupe of some waking dream -- I know not.'

Yesterday I was young—yesterday I left my ship, with hope in my heart, and brown locks upon my head; today, I am a middle-aged man—today, I find my ship rotting on a desolate beach, the hair white upon my brow, and the future all a blank!

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