crushed-creature

Updated: May 23, 2025

Jury a-listening! I've been hunting the world over for you. You hid here. Here I find you this poor, deserted woman, whose life has been wrecked by your faithlessness, finds you. Me, with a crape veil, a sniff in my nose, a crushed-creature face make-up, a tremolo in my voice and a smart lawyer such as I know about! What can you two old fools say to a country jury to block my bluff?

Various - Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905