quiggins

Updated: May 12, 2025

Quiggins, whose portrait had still a conspicuous niche among the lares of the household, a little thin silvery old widow-lady, suggesting great sadness, much gentleness, and a little severity, had thus become for the family of James Mesurier a symbol of sanctity, with which a properly accredited saint of the calendar could certainly not, in that Protestant home, have competed.

Richard Le Gallienne - Young Lives