out-strain

Updated: May 31, 2025

There's simplicity about his scorn, and he seems to have been brought up on facts, not on literature, like most of these young monkeys. The cousinship I don't think matters; Kirsteen brings in too strong an out-strain. He's HER son, not Tod's. But perhaps," he added, sighing, "it won't last." Flora shook her head. "It will last!" she said; "Nedda's deep."

John Galsworthy - The Freelands