ill-invented

Updated: June 25, 2025

I protest I feel just as if I had been reading an ill-invented story, an unnatural fiction. I cannot get these things together in my mind at all, do what I will." "There must be some way of accounting for it," said Roger. "No doubt," I returned; "but who knows what that way may be?" "You may be wrong in supposing that the people at whose houses she visits know nothing about her habits."

George MacDonald - The Vicar's Daughter