draidful

Updated: May 28, 2025

"Ah, love of God! what misfortune has befallen Chino!" Then in English, and with a swift leap of surprise and dismay: "Ah, Meester Lockwude, air you hurt? Eh, tell me-a! Ah, it is too draidful!" "No, no," gasped Lockwood, as he dragged Chino's unconscious body to the bed Felice had just left. "No; I I've shot him. We met there on the trail."

Frank Norris - A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West