The Channel Passage

How holy people look when they are sea-sick! There was a patient Parsee

near me who seemed purified once and for ever from all taint of the

flesh. Buddha was a low, worldly minded, music-hall comic singer in

comparison. He sat like this for a long time until . . . and he made a

noise like cows coming home to be milked on an April evening.

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