distance-making

Updated: May 22, 2025

The winter had closed over Stagholme, the isolating, distance-making winter of English country life, wherein each house is thrown upon its own resource, and the peaceful are at rest because their neighbours cannot get at them. Dora was out. She was out a good deal now; exceedingly busy in good works of a different type from those affected by Sister Cecilia.

Henry Seton Merriman - From One Generation to Another