absent-mindednesses

Updated: April 30, 2025

We don't want our minister's children sitting round on dictionaries and encyclopaedias." The minister had come to them, a lone bachelor, with kind, absent eyes and the faculty of making himself beloved. For six years they had taken care of him and loved him watched over his outgoings and his incomings and forgiven all his absent-mindednesses.

- Quaint Courtships