mortar-splashed

Updated: May 24, 2025

A mortar-splashed hod-carrier, who had seated himself on a pile of brick and was eating his noonday rations from a tin can just brought to him by a slatternly girl, gave Richard a spasm of envy. Here was a man who had found his place, and was establishing what Richard did not seem able to establish in his own case a right to exist. At supper Mr.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich - The Stillwater Tragedy