A humped shoulder of down cut it off from the sunset, and a gaunt well with a shattered penthouse dwarfed the dwelling.

The little house was creeperless, several windows were broken, and the cart shed had a black shadow at midday.

It was a mile and a half from the end house of the village, and its loneliness was very doubtfully relieved by an ambiguous family of echoes.
The place impressed Bensington as being eminently adapted to the requirements of scientific research.

He walked over the premises sketching out coops and runs with a sweeping arm, and he found the kitchen capable of accommodating a series of incubators and foster mothers with the very minimum of alteration.

He took the place there and then; on his way back to London he stopped at Dunton Green and closed with an eligible couple that had answered his advertisements, and that same evening he succeeded in isolating a sufficient quantity of Herakleophorbia I.to more than justify these engagements.
The eligible couple who were destined under Mr.Bensington to be the first almoners on earth of the Food of the Gods, were not only very perceptibly aged, but also extremely dirty.