Extract: CHAPTER I. Reappearance of an unexpected customer; together with what passed at a certain interview. DAY had pretty well broken as Colin trudged back homewards alone. It was one of those dull, leaden, misty, and chilly mornings, which in a town newly stirring from sleep seems to put the stamp and seal of melancholy upon everything external. The buildings at hand looked black, -those at a distance fused into mere shadows by the density of the windless atmosphere, -while the unextinguished lamps grew red-eyed and dim in the white light that had risen over them. Early labourers were...