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The life of the gate was already at full tide of sound and colour, braying, gargling, quarrelling nomads wading in their flocks, Djlass countrymen, Singalese soldiers, Jewish pack-peddlers, Bedouin women bent double under their stacks of desert fire-grass streaming inward, dust white, dust yellow, and all red in the dawn under the red wall. The flood ran against him.
She was stout ... sparse-haired ... wore a switch ... had kindly, confiding, blue eyes. Beggars, tramps, pack-peddlers, book-agents, fortune-tellers, she lent a credulous ear to all, helped others when we ourselves needed help, signed up for preposterous articles on "easy" monthly payments, gave away food, starving her appetite and ours.
Very hospitable people are not particular as to who comes to see them, if only some one comes: therefore, pack-peddlers, stove-peddlers, drovers, the old crazy man and the old crazy woman, and other wanderers, are welcome at the hill farmhouse.
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