It was coming invariably at the same hour, with the bag mounted in shoulder and a hand put in the pocket.
His was a figure that it was moving to compassion: any weak point, humpback, pygmy. A wide sombrero was hiding his face of sharp profile. His breast was forming a small egg-shaped protrusion.
I was looking at it in the night to night, in the dark hall of house, when I was sinking the head in the booths replete with garbages, while his agile hands and grandotas were going to the rear of the roles. Sometimes it was interrupting of sudden the very nasty search, and resting against the door, began to cough, trying, vainly, to contain the sudden accesses. |