Dubliners

He still bought a copy of Reynolds’s Newspaper every week but he attended to his religious duties and for nine-tenths of the year lived a regular life. Polly began to grow a little strange in her manner and the young man was evidently perturbed. He had never been seen in the city without a silk hat of some decency and a pair of gaiters. At last she was settled comfortably and Freddy Malins invited Mr Browne into the cab.