I had wanderedwanderinto it at noontime , when all nature is peculiarly quiet , and was startledstartledby the roarroarof my own gun , as it brokebreakthe Sabbath stillness around and was prolonged and reverberated by the angry echoesecho.
Six brilliant youths , mostly novelists who had not yet started and poets who were about to begin , clutteredclutterup Mr. Pett 's rooms on this fair June morning , while he , clutchingclutchhis Sunday paper , wanderedwanderabout , finding , like the dove in Genesis , no rest .