backsliderissimus

Updated: May 12, 2025

The most extraordinary things used to run through my head in those days. I will confess that my mind ran persistently that evening upon revolutions after the best French pattern, and I sat on a Committee of Safety and tried backsliders. Parload was there, among the prisoners, backsliderissimus, aware too late of the error of his ways.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - In the Days of the Comet