child-nay

Updated: May 19, 2025

Can this be thee, Petro Giampetti, trembling like a child-nay, a tear actually wetting that swarthy check, as you chafe the pulse, and bathe the temples of that insensible girl? And hast thou really so tender a heart, and yet couldst enter into so hard-hearted a conspiracy?

Maturin Murray Ballou - The Duke's Prize; a Story of Art and Heart in Florence