brother-agent

Updated: May 19, 2025

Would a brother-agent take her in his arms, then reprove her with every symptom of vexation for her "madness," her "insanity," her "nonsense" that was like to "drive me mad"? Thackeray's own words! Vainly Lanyard cudgelled his wits for some plausible reading of this riddle.

Louis Joseph Vance - The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf