bonvins

Updated: June 13, 2025

A short thick fellow, is Bonvin, with cheeks as red as raw chops and small eyes that glitter with cruelty. Bonvin, whose youngest child a male, has the look and intelligence of a veal and whose mother weighs one hundred and five kilos a fact which Bonvin is proud of since his first wife, who died, was under weight despite the fact that the Bonvins being in the business, eat meat twice daily.

F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley) Smith - A Village of Vagabonds