son-nay

Updated: October 25, 2025

The room looked unaltered, as if he had left it but the day before the prim book- shelves the empty birdcage the broken lute the patent easy-chair the footstool the sofa, which had been added to the original furniture for his express comfort, in the days when he was first adopted as a son-nay, on the hearth-rug the very slippers, on the back of the chair the very dressing-gown, graciously worn by him while yet the fairness of his form justified his fond respect for it.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - What Will He Do with It? — Volume 10