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Such threadbare coats and trousers, such fusty gowns

and shawls, such squashed hats and bonnets, such boots and shoes, such

u Fair All of

them wore the cast-off clothes of other men and women, were made up of

patches and pieces of other people's individuality, and had no sartorial

existence of their own proper Their as the walk of a race apart

They had a peculiar way of doggedly slinking round the corner, as if

they were eternally going to the pawnbroker's When they coughed, they

coughed like people accustoes, waiting for answers to letters in faded ink, which

gave the recipients of those reat mental disturbance and no

satisfaction As they eyed the stranger in passing, they eyed hiry, sharp, speculative as to his softness if they

were accredited to hi

handsoh shoulders,

shas, buttoned and pinned and darned and

dragged their clothes, frayed their button-holes, leaked out of their

figures in dirty little ends of tape, and issued fros

As these people passed hi still in the court-yard, and one of