benefactrice

Updated: May 2, 2025

Here appears a little rosy-cheeked boy with a basket of chestnuts; or a care-worn mother, pale and thin, but with a grateful eye presenting to her benefactrice a few small, fragrant cheeses, made of goat's milk; and there is an old man, hobbling upon crutches, with a basket of apples from his orchard.

John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott - Madame Roland, Makers of History