dulcima

Updated: June 15, 2025

Indeed, he was quite silent and morose for a whole day about it, poor fellow. He was a tall handsome young man, slightly built, with the kind of sallow complexion that women admire, and I wondered at his preferring my company to that of the womankind on board, who were certainly very civil to him. I forget her name, but I remember he told it me Dulcima Something but it is of no consequence.

Mary Cholmondeley - The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers