maud'-like

Updated: June 10, 2025

I do wish indeed to see and know her, and doubt not I shall find your glowing statements all confirmed, and that in your height of joy you need not be ashamed to 'blush it east and blush it west. There is a certain 'Maud'-like ecstasy in your note that makes me think of that. "A small bird had already sung the news in my ear. But it was doubly pleasant to have it straight from you.

George William Curtis - Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis