daleswoman's

Updated: August 18, 2026

I'd be reet glad to send worrud. He wor theer in the ward, they tell't me, last week. Three years before she had separated from her husband, a sawyer, by mutual consent. He was younger than she, and he had been grossly unfaithful to her; she came of a good country stock and her daleswoman's self-respect could put up with him no longer.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The History of David Grieve