many-caged

Updated: May 8, 2025

He was a very tall man, with a rain-sodden, bell-crowned hat crushed low upon his brows, and wrapped in a long, many-caged overcoat, the skirts of which were woefully mired and torn. All at once he laughed, very softly and musically. "So, you would have killed me, would you, Charmian shot me like a dog?" His tone was soft as his laugh and equally musical, and yet neither was good to hear.

Jeffery Farnol - The Broad Highway