fagot-venders

Updated: May 2, 2025

Throughout the day the babel of crowded tenement strife; the crying of fishwives and fagot-venders in the court; the striking of the hours; the boom of the time gun and sweet clamor of music bells; the failing of the light and the soaring note of the bugle he watched motionless beside his master. Very late at night shuffling footsteps came up the stairs.

Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson - Greyfriars Bobby