last-remembered

Updated: October 2, 2025

This last affection brings tears to their eyes, almost, when they speak of their urgent need of pay; they speak of their last-remembered quid as if it were some deceased relative, too early lost, and to be mourned forever. As for sugar, no white man can drink coffee after they have sweetened it to their liking.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Army Life in a Black Regiment