lawkadaisies

Updated: June 25, 2025

Amboyne said, "This is the temple: here you can sleep as safe from gunpowder as a field-marshal born." The farmer's daughter came out, and beamed pleasure at sight of the doctor: he got down, and told her the case, privately, and gave her precise instructions. She often interrupted the narrative with "Lawkadaisies," and other rural interjections, and simple exclamations of pity.

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