renanesque

Updated: May 19, 2025

I think he felt an amused and kindly interest in the two young folk from Oxford who had come as pilgrims to his shrine, and, realizing that our French was not fluent and our shyness great, he filled up the time and the gaps by a monologue, lit up by many touches of Renanesque humor, on the situation in France.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1