After a while, a solitary figure appeared on the path behind her, pausing and stooping occasionally, yet catching up quickly.
PALE and haggard faces, lank and bony figures... boys of stunted growth, and others whose long meagre legs would hardly bear their stooping bodies.
and for number, I am sure they were like autumn leaves, so that my back ached with stooping and my fingers with sorting them out.
So he hastened towards it, and stooping down placed his hands upon it, and it was a cloak of golden tissue, curiously wrought with stars, and wrapped in many folds.
