plaistows

Updated: May 10, 2025

And not only that: I should have dragged a great many of the men, of the friends who had trusted to my ability, who have believed in me, into the same pit; not only such men as Griffenberg and Wirsch and the Beltons, but the Plaistows, the Clansdales, and the Fitzharfords. They would have suffered with me, would have, considered themselves betrayed." Stafford drew a long breath.

Charles Garvice - At Love's Cost

Mary had espied it one day in Plaistows' Stores, and had set her heart on buying it. How she had schemed to scrape the money together! saving so much on a new gown, so much on bonnet and mantle. He remembered, as if it were yesterday, the morning on which she had burst in, eyes and cheeks aglow, to tell him that she had managed it at last, and how they had gone off arm in arm to secure the prize.

Henry Handel Richardson - Australia Felix