badly-sealed

Updated: May 17, 2025

There were letters of stilted penitence to his father, for some wrong-doing; and among them all was a badly-written, badly-sealed, badly-directed, blotted note: "My dear, dear, dear, dearest mother, I will be a better boy; I will, indeed; but don't, please, be ill for me; I am not worth it; but I will be good, darling mother." Miss Matty could not speak for crying, after she had read this note.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Cranford