mock-benediction

Updated: May 20, 2025

Amber's doubts revived and he became more than half persuaded that this must be a snare devised by those acute intelligences which had instigated both the theft of the photograph and that snarled mock-benediction of the mendicant. "I don't like it," he admitted ruefully; "it's so canny."

Louis Joseph Vance - The Bronze Bell