porterai

Updated: May 24, 2025

The destined master of Beaubocage and Cotenoir was entirely without ready money. He had his watch. He put his hand upon that clumsy timekeeper as he talked to madame. "Je te porterai chez ma tante, mon gars," he said to himself. But he doubted whether the high priests of the pious mountain the Dordona of Pauperism would advance much upon this antique specimen of the watchmaker's art.

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - Charlotte's Inheritance