castback

Updated: July 20, 2025

Rather, it seemed to him that there must be two Flavias: the one shy, modest, and, where her country was not assailed, of a reserve beyond reproach; the other Flavia, a shoot of the old tree, a hoyden, a castback to Sir Michael's wild youth and the gay days of the Restoration Court. He listened to her drollery, her ringing laugh, her arch sayings with some blame, but more admiration.

Stanley John Weyman - The Wild Geese