coat-enshrouded

Updated: May 26, 2025

For how was he to know that there was a soul before him that needed saving? Upon a wet evening, several months after the last chapter, two interminable rows of cars, pulled by slipping horses, jangled along a prominent side-street. A dozen cabs, with coat-enshrouded drivers, clattered to and fro. Electric lights, whirring softly, shed a blurred radiance.

Stephen Crane - Maggie, a Girl of the Streets