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Only when a crowd moves all together it's
dangerous because it's like the flood-tide and ebb-tide of the sea."
"And the most irritating part of it," said Stephen, with an insight
which had sometimes visited him in the trenches, "is that it gets what
it deserves because it can always have whatever it wants--even the truth
and honest government."
They were passing rows of narrow old-fashioned tenement-houses,
standing, like crumbling walls of red brick, behind sagging wooden
fences; and suddenly, while Stephen's eyes were on the lights that came
and went so fitfully in the basement dining-rooms, Darrow stopped the
car in the gutter of cobblestones, and motioned in silence toward the
pavement. As Stephen got out, he glanced vaguely round him at the
strange neighbourhood.
"Where are we?"
"North of Marshall Street. A quarter which was once very prosperous; but
that was before your day. This is one of several rows of old houses,
well-built in their time, better built, indeed, than any houses we're
putting up now; but their day is over.


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