evil-wisher

Updated: May 18, 2025

The prisons were over full just now; convents, monasteries, and public institutions had all been requisitioned by the Government for the housing of the hundreds of so-called traitors who had been arrested on the barest suspicion, or at the mere denunciation of an evil-wisher.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy - El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel