misprisement

Updated: May 9, 2025

McDermott's overheard misprisement of the South! His statement of his intentions toward Katrine! The cut of the words, "She is but eighteen, and one protects that age," came back to him. There had never come a time in his life before when he would have been in the mood to do the thing he now offered. "Phil," he said, "there is another bank to the Silver Fork River."

Elinor Macartney Lane - Katrine