maternalities

Updated: May 4, 2025

Ferguson's stream of foolish maternalities vulgar, but warm and kindly, and never ill-natured; and oh! ten times worse than anything Christian had known in her girlhood, which had been forlorn indeed, but free; when she had followed through necessity her nomadic father, who had at any rate, left her alone, to form her own mind and character as she best could.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - Christian's Mistake