seed-beans

Updated: June 11, 2025

After all, I doubt whether you have really never had a sweetheart, for every schoolboy swears allegiance to some yellow-haired divinity in ruffled muslin aprons." Dr. Grey laid his hand gently on the shrivelled fingers that were busily engaged in shelling some seed-beans, and answered, jocosely, "Have I not often told you, that my dear, old, patient sister Janet, is my only lady-love?"

Augusta J. Evans Wilson - Vashti: or, Until Death Us Do Part