text-vendors

Updated: August 27, 2026

Immediately before the theatre, early corners stood in knots and chatted; programme and text-vendors cried and sold their wares; people came hurrying from all directions, as to a magnet; hastily they ascended the low steps and disappeared beneath the portico. He watched until the last late-comer had vanished. Only he was left; he again was the outsider.

Henry Handel Richardson - Maurice Guest