Chapter 2

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FOR A LONG TIME DAVID CONTINUED TO SIT AND gaze Upon the beautiful scenery that lay before him. He looked again and again upon the blueness of the sea, upon the coastline curving along its shore: he saw the colours of the landscape, its many kinds of green intermingled with gold and red, fade into one another towards the horizon until everything melted into the blue of sea and sky far away over the mountains.

And down here in the town no one at all turned to look at him. It was a small town, not like Salonica. The streets were small and narrow and very hilly.

Going down into the town had been a good move. No one took any notice of him, and he could learn a lot by looking in the shops. He could find out what food looked like, and many other things, too, that he had never seen before and did not know the use of. They had an enormous number of possessions, these people...