He says there’s a very particular etiquette to having your flag at half-mast: you’re supposed to first run it all the way up to the finial at the top and then bring it halfway down.

Far away I saw a gaunt cat slink crouchingly along a wall, but traces of men there were none.

Here we trifled and bathed , and intervisited with the company who frequent the place for health[…]

She started coming on to me as soon as my wife left the room.