There were always three or four old people sitting on the front porch of the house or puttering about the garden of the Bentley farm. Three of the old people were women and sisters to Jesse. They were colorless, soft-voiced lot. Then there was a silent old man with thin white hair who was Jesse’s uncle.
ex Sherwood Anderson, “Godliness, A Tale in Four Parts,” (Part 1), Winesburg, Ohio (1919) : 55
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