Summary
I met the new coastguard sooner than I'd anticipated. On my return I found him sitting, entirely at his ease, in my garden, smoking a cherry-wood and leafing through my calf-bound copy of the tide-charts. I had time to observe him before he acknowledged me. He was a large, handsome fellow with widely spaced blue eyes. His beard and moustache, like his favoured tobacco (as I later learnt to my cost), were navy cut. His enormous hands were manicured, his uniform immaculate.
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Enter the Villain
In Competition No. 2387 you were invited to provide a sketch of a villainous character on their first appearance in an imaginary novel. I turned at once to Dickens, whose introductory descriptions of characters are usually so vivid, and was surprised that when Fagin enters we are told nothing about him except that he had...
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