fancy-heads

Updated: June 8, 2025

There was luckily a certain independence, of the pecuniary sort, all round: the Master could never otherwise have spent his solemn Wanderjahre in Florence and Rome, and continued by the Thames as well as by the Arno and the Tiber to add unpurchased group to group and model, for what was too apt to prove in the event mere love, fancy-heads of celebrities either too busy or too buried too much of the age or too little of it to sit.

- Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages