People lounged near the door, and handed out scraps of news to the unenfranchised, who stood outside in the gutter.

We all age through the efflux of time.

Unfortunately, the Chinese merchants and noodlemen were already loyal to Wilcox's brands. Wilcox was the irrefutable king of the multimillion-dollar Asian flour trade.

To bring his head somewhere down near hers, he slid down and scrunged his bony knees to one side and beneath the music rack on the pew ahead.