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Updated: May 29, 2025
Before them, as they faced the youthful, brown file of soldiers in their many-patched and faded garb, the three had a comprehensive view of the town, chiefly trees and churches sufficient to house the entire populace several times over.
I noticed that he did not wear his many-patched trousers, but was well dressed.... "attending a regents' meeting, young man, where I suppose I'll have to stand up in your defence again.... "It's a good thing you don't run after the women, Gregory, or your case would be entirely lost." "And what are you up to now?" asked Mackworth. "acting ... in Van Maarden's Iistral ... leading rôle!"
Away back in her childhood there was a memory of a little dingy, old-fashioned kitchen, one of the oldest and dreariest of its kind, where the chimney smoked and the winter wind crawled in through endless cracks and crannies; where it was not always possible to get enough to eat during the hardest times; but there was a large, old-fashioned arm-chair, covered with frayed and faded calico, and in this chair sat often of a winter evening a clean-faced old man, with thin and many-patched clothes, with a worn and sickly face, with a few gray hairs straggling sadly about on his smooth crown: and that old man used often and often to drone out in a cracked voice and in a tune pitched too low by half an octave the very words which had just been repeated in Marion's hearing.
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