husband-seeker

Updated: May 2, 2025

This mystic contrivance was placed upon a table so low that the husband-seeker was compelled to go on his knees to get his eye down low enough to see through. He accomplished this feat without grumbling, although his knees were scarified by the whalebones which surrounded him.

Q. K. Philander Doesticks - The Witches of New York