skilless

Updated: August 24, 2026

Now, as you have long since learned, my tongue was but a skilless servant; and though I sought to make the command the gentlest plea, she took instant umbrage and struck back smartly. "You need not make the danger an excuse. I will be still; and when I speak to you again, you will be willing enough to hear me, I promise you!" "Nay, then, dear lady; you must not take it so!" I protested.

Francis Lynde - The Master of Appleby: A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady