deviatory

Updated: May 20, 2025

These deviatory details may enable the readers to understand more fully, and to condemn less readily the actions of Josephine de Maistre. She had placed unbounded confidence in the man who had come to her with his well-learned tales of love. She was young, susceptible and inexperienced, and had not thought that night should close in upon her bright, beautiful, cloudless day.

[pseud.] Vera - Honor Edgeworth: Ottawa's Present Tense