The Seekers (2012)
“Tonight, as he climbed the unlit stairs of the Pittsburgh rooming house in sodden boots, feeling thoroughly downhearted, he thought of all the splendid meals he had quite taken for granted as he was growing up.
What a contrast between the luscious aromas memory conjured and the stenches of this old building that creaked in the winter wind. He smelled tobacco. Unwashed linen and unclean bodies. The ghastly fish stew served by the bad-tempered landlady for the evening meal— Elizabeth hadn’t eaten... the wretched stew. She hadn’t felt well enough to go downstairs with him. Poor health did have its blessings—!
Ah, that was a shameful thought. He should be, and was, desperately worried about his wife. Of late she’d been unusually pale and fatigued. He supposed it was the result of living cramped in a single combination bedroom-sitting room for most of the winter—and eating the landlady’s swill when hunger overpowered good sense.
Even Chief, laboring up the rickety stairs behind him, looked bedraggled, moved with rheumatic slowness.MoreLess
What a contrast between the luscious aromas memory conjured and the stenches of this old building that creaked in the winter wind. He smelled tobacco. Unwashed linen and unclean bodies. The ghastly fish stew served by the bad-tempered landlady for the evening meal— Elizabeth hadn’t eaten... the wretched stew. She hadn’t felt well enough to go downstairs with him. Poor health did have its blessings—!
Ah, that was a shameful thought. He should be, and was, desperately worried about his wife. Of late she’d been unusually pale and fatigued. He supposed it was the result of living cramped in a single combination bedroom-sitting room for most of the winter—and eating the landlady’s swill when hunger overpowered good sense.
Even Chief, laboring up the rickety stairs behind him, looked bedraggled, moved with rheumatic slowness.MoreLess
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