half-commenced

Updated: May 9, 2025

Perhaps the boy had gone back to his Latin, or perhaps the passing ship had taken his thoughts along with it to Hastings, and thus left the half-commenced exclamation unfinished. Trafford read and reread the little bit of paper, and folded it carefully, and put it away with the precious letter which the boy's father had written on his dying-bed.

Glance Gaylord - Culm Rock: The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught