baendigt

Updated: May 11, 2025

We who loathe all the humdrum bourgeois talk 'don't do this don't do that! Aunt Alsie, there's a German line, too, you know it Was uns alle baendigt, das Gemeine' don't you hate it too das Gemeine?" the word came with vehemence through the white teeth. "And how can we escape it we women except through freedom through asserting ourselves through love, of course?

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The Case of Richard Meynell