Saturday, April 15, 2023

Definitely old-fashioned

 It was a fairy-tale village peopled by yokels who, if they did not wear the traditional white smocks so beloved of film producers, at least climbed the rough steps to the church on a Sunday morning in top hats of unquestionale antiquity.

(from The Gyrth Chalice Mystery, by Margery Allingham)

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