australian-wise

Updated: May 24, 2025

You went forth upon the world as Una Callingham, with your true personality as Mary Wharton all obscured even in your own memory. Fortunately for your false father's plot, you were small for your age, and developed slowly: he gave out, on the contrary, that you were big for your years and had outgrown yourself, Australian-wise, both in wisdom and stature." "But my mother!" I exclaimed, appalled.

Grant Allen - Recalled to Life