saeredness

Updated: July 3, 2025

When he is gone, the new dog you get will never be like him; he may be, indeed, a far handsomer and more amiable animal, but he will not be your old companion; he will not be surrounded with all those old associations, not merely with your own by-past life, but with the lives, the faces, and the voices of those who have left you, which invest with a certain saeredness even that humble but faithful friend.

Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - The Recreations of a Country Parson