drewthy

Updated: May 1, 2025

The bracing air of Queenscliff soon picked him up; he had, thank God, a marvellous faculty of recuperation: while others were still not done pitying him, he was himself again, and well enough to take the daily plunge in the Sea that was one of his dearest pleasures. To feel the warm, stinging fluid lap him round, after all these drewthy years of dust and heat!

Henry Handel Richardson - Australia Felix