spanish-drab

Updated: July 28, 2025

I commented upon this, pointing out to her that this is the strange quality of the Roman faith that its forms and customs, learned in youth, remain in the affections of Papists to their dying day, even after many years of neglect and unbelief; whereas in the severe, Spanish-drab Protestantism to which I was reared, if one once loses interest in the tenets themselves, there is nothing whatever left upon which the mind may linger pleasantly.

Harold Frederic - In the Valley