once-spoken-of

Updated: July 20, 2026

I thought of something near Welsley." "So that you could go in to Cathedral service when 'The Wilderness' was sung!" He had smiled as he had said it, but his own reference to Rosamund's once-spoken-of love of the wilderness had, in a flash, brought the hill of Drouva before him, and he had faced man's tragedy remembered joys of the past in a shadowed present. "Go into the country, Rose.

Robert Smythe Hichens - In the Wilderness