the visit [by Francis Thompson] thusly: "The door opened and a strange hand was thrust in. The door closed but Thompson had not entered. Again it opened, again it shut. At the third attempt a waif of a man came in. No such figure had been looked for; more ragged and unkempt than the average beggar, his feet without stockings, showing through his boots, his coat torn and no shirt."He looked so thin and haggard that "he seemed in the last stage of physical collapse."
from National Catholic Reporter: A misfit poet of heaven
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