four-years-past

Updated: May 8, 2025

Mexia, undisturbed, genial with his wine, and of a retrospective turn of mind, went smoothly, even dreamily on with his episode of a four-years-past struggle. He had scarcely noticed the slip of the tongue by which he had included himself with Luiz de Guardiola and his ministers. "Well.... He lay there indeed, and called upon God; and now and then he cried to men and women we knew not of.

Mary Johnston - Sir Mortimer