child-deserting

Updated: February 8, 2026

"Had I known that child-deserting story I would have given it harder still, sir," says Thomas Newcome, twirling his mustachios: "but my brother had nothing to do with the quarrel, and very rightly did not wish to engage in it.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The Newcomes : Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family