eartrending

Updated: June 29, 2025

"It's 'eartrending, isn't it, sir," he said, "to picture the quantity of reelly lovely medeevial stuff of this kind that lays well-nigh unnoticed in many of our residential country 'ouses: much of it in peril, I take it, of being cast aside as so much rubbish. What is it Shakespeare says unconsidered trifles. Ah, I often say he 'as a word for us all, sir.

M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James - A Thin Ghost and Others