The New Collected Short Stories by E.M. Forster

Author:E.M. Forster [Forster, E.M.]
Language: nld
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-10-20T16:00:00+00:00

THE POINT OF IT

I

‘I don’t see the point of it,’ said Micky, through much imbecile laughter.

Harold went on rowing. They had spent too long on the sand-dunes, and now the tide was running out of the estuary strongly. The sun was setting, the fields on the opposite bank shone bright, and the farm-house where they were stopping glowed from its upper windows as though filled to the brim with fire.

‘We’re going to be carried out to sea,’ Micky continued. ‘You’ll never win unless you bust yourself a bit, and you a poor invalid, too. I back the sea.’

They were reaching the central channel, the backbone, as it were, of the retreating waters. Once past it, the force of the tide would slacken, and they would have easy going until they beached under the farm. It was a glorious evening. It had been a most glorious day. They had rowed out to the dunes at the slack, bathed, raced, eaten, slept, bathed and raced and eaten again. Micky was in roaring spirits. God had never thwarted him hitherto, and he could not suppose that they would really be made late for supper by an ebbing tide. When they came to the channel, and the boat, which had been slowly edging upstream, hung motionless among the moving waters, he lost all semblance of sanity, and shouted:

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