purple-room

Updated: May 7, 2025

My father, they say, has taken as many as twenty prisoners, of one sort or another; and has caged them up in that purple-room with himself, examining into and searching out every secret secrets I want so much to know. He has got the Buccaneer, they say." "Who says so?" inquired Constance eagerly. "Why, everybody. Maud says so.

Mrs. S. C. Hall - The Buccaneer: A Tale