peppermore

Updated: June 10, 2025

He meant, I take it, that there was no reason for its further existence. That implies that another man had come into the arena!" "Ay, but does it?" said Brent. "It might mean something else that she'd finally accepted Wellesley. Eh?" "No," declared Peppermore. "She's not engaged to Wellesley: I'll lay anything she isn't, Mr. Brent.

J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher - In the Mayor's Parlour