The water gleamed placidly, no movement anywhere on the long straight lines of the
quays, no one about to be seen except the few dock hands busy alongside the Ferndale, knowing their work, mostly silent or exchanging a few words in low tones as if they, too, had been aware of that lady 'who mustn't be disturbed.
Dorian Gray hurried along the
quay through the drizzling rain.
She brought an unusual number of passengers, some of whom remained on deck to scan the picturesque panorama of the town, while the greater part disembarked in the boats, and landed on the
quay.
They advanced towards a boat, which a custom-house officer held by a chain, near the
quay.
It was then, as it is to-day, an irregular trapezoid, bordered on one side by the
quay, and on the other three by a series of lofty, narrow, and gloomy houses.
The grandee's well-known mansion on the English
Quay glittered with innumerable lights.
First taking the precaution of locking my cabin door, I stepped from the bulwark of the vessel to the lonely
quay, and set forth upon my night wanderings through the Dead City.
A dense crowd soon assembled on the
quay, waiting for them to disembark.
Before she had been quite an hour at rest, a meagre little man, with a red-tipped nose and a face cast in an angry mould, landed from a sampan on the quay of the Foreign Concession, and incontinently turned to shake his fist at her.
But he caught sight on the quay of a heavy seaman's chest, painted brown under a fringed sailcloth cover, and lashed with new manila line.
He walked as if blind, following instinctively the shore of the diminutive harbour along the quay, through a pretty, dull garden, where dull people sat on chairs under the trees, till, his fury abandoning him, he discovered himself in the middle of a long, broad bridge.
But at the moment a couple of carriages and a slow-moving cart interposed, and suddenly he turned sharp to the left, following the quay again, but now away from the lake.
