While Father Brown and his friend Flambeau, in the short story, The Sign of the Broken Sword, are walking in a forest in a dark cold night, they finds an inn, which the narrator describes in the following sentence:
It stood sideways in the road, as if standing aside in the amplitude of hospitality.
Every word on its own is clear in the second part of the sentence, but I can't understand what he means by it.
It stood sideways in the road, as if standing aside in the amplitude of hospitality.
Every word on its own is clear in the second part of the sentence, but I can't understand what he means by it.