canonges

Updated: June 9, 2025

And yet when George had shown her the licence, in the name of Cannon, and she had ventured to say apologetically and caressingly: "I always understood your real name was Canonges," how queerly he had looked as he answered: "I changed it long ago legally!" Yes, and she had persuaded herself that the queerness of his look was only in her fancy! But it was not only in her fancy.

Arnold Bennett - Hilda Lessways