archraeologist

Updated: September 16, 2025

They jostled and hustled and hooted and bragged; and then, after gorging and boozing and easing their doublets, they squared their elbows one by one on the greasy table and buried their scarred foreheads and dreamed of a good gallop after flying foes. And the women? They must have been strangely simple simpler far than any moral archraeologist can show us in a learned restoration.

Henry James - Italian Hours