put-bys

Updated: May 26, 2025

There is nothing but put-offs and put-bys, and my heart is full of sadness and fearful wonder." "And if you do see her, what then, Andrew?" "She is that low-spirited I do not know how to talk to her. She has little to say, and sits with her seam, and her eyes cast down, and all her pretty, merry ways are gone far away. I wonder where! Do you think she is ill, Christina?" he asked drearily.

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr - A Knight of the Nets