half-discourse

Updated: May 13, 2025

But Mistress Winter's disapprobation, combined with her own indifference, had been enough to keep her away, and the half-discourse of John Laurence at the Cross had been the only sermon she remembered to have heard during the five years of her residence with that delectable dame. Many thoughts, therefore, now familiar to the church-going public, were quite new to her.

Emily Sarah Holt - For the Master's Sake: A Story of the Days of Queen Mary