Chapter 30 AT THE FALCON INN

And then there came both mist and snow,

And it grew wondrous cold;

And ice mast-high came floating by,

As green as emerald.

So says that wonder-ballad of the sea.

But over London came a gale that made the chimneys rock; and after it came ice and snow, sharp, stinging sleet, and thumping hail, with sickening winds from the gray west,