cutshort

Updated: May 29, 2025

"'I suppose, said my Lady Cutshort, 'that it would excite you too much to talk, so I had better read aloud. What book do you prefer? "I named one a novel I had not finished and resigned myself to martyrdom. She reads fluently her father says prettily; but the piping voice rasped my auriculars to the quick, and I soon stopped the exhibition.

Marion Harland - At Last