... feet and shambled homewards; he was ragged, ill- fed, unkempt. The day's work was done, and on the village green he found men and women, for the most part as ill-clad as himself, standing about in groups gossiping. The innkeeper lounged at the ale-house door, thin and peaked as his fellows; there was no good living for any man in those parts, by reason ... — The Gathering of Brother Hilarius • Michael Fairless
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