pre-huntley

Updated: May 7, 2025

"Yes," he says, smiling still, though his face has whitened, and a wrathy red light has come into his deep eyes; "in the pre-Huntley era, I laid my heart at her feet by-the-way, I must have been in petticoats at the time and she kicked it away, as she had, no doubt, done others." The camel's backbone is broken. This last innuendo in weight a straw has done it.

Rhoda Broughton - Nancy