In midmost of the stream, embraced in the weir's shimmering arm-spread, a small island lay anchored, fringed close with willow and silver birch and alder.
"The tunnel has been built and the train needs to go through it, " Ashley Alder, chief executive of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, said at a Thomson Reuters regulatory conference in Hong Kong.
Others fell down in the alder moors; they are called "Elverfolk" (alder folks), and among them the women are very handsome to look at, but not to trust; their backs are also hollow, like a dough-trough.
" And he went out of the garden and over the grass-plot of the yard, into the alder grove; there stood a little six-sided house, with a poultry-yard and a duck-yard.
