He lost his job in the last downsizing.

Even the most ice-hearted commuters melt when they see him sitting there.

[…] he really wishes he had never beheld you, nor yours. You have spoiled him for a solitaire, and a book, all the days of his life; and put him into such a condition, that he thinks of nothing, and enquires of nothing but after a person who has nothing to say to him, and has left him for ever […]

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