collecting-men

Updated: June 22, 2025

"It seems hours to me, my daughter, whilst the money is chinking and the clergyman is speaking, and the ten pieces of gold is getting so hot in my hands, I fancies they burns me, and still not one of the collecting-men comes near our pew.

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men