brickmade

Updated: May 7, 2025

In the evenings he received lodgers, sitting on his brickmade bench with his pipe in his mouth. "Whom have we here?" he would ask the ragged and tattered object approaching him, who had probably been chucked out of the town for drunkenness, or perhaps for some other reason not quite so simple. And after the man had answered him, he would say, "Let me see legal papers in confirmation of your lies."

Maksim Gorky - Creatures That Once Were Men