scarded

Updated: May 24, 2025

I wouldn't go to actin' like I was love-sick for a man I 'scarded oncet." Grace was far too proud to suffer even her faithful Rachel thus to address her, and turning her flashing eyes upon the old woman, she said haughtily, "How dare you talk to me in this way don't you know I won't allow it? Besides, what reason have you for asserting what you have?"

Mary Jane Holmes - Darkness and Daylight