quasi-sister's

Updated: June 28, 2025

It was Dora, in the quasi-sister's garb she had assumed of late serge skirt, long black cloak, and bonnet tied with white muslin strings under the throat. In her parish visiting among the worst slums of Ancoats, she had found such a dress useful. 'I brought Sandy's present, she said, looking round her cautiously. 'Is his stocking hung up? 'No! or the rascal would never go to sleep to-night.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The History of David Grieve