staminer

Updated: June 6, 2025

There was something fine and pathetic in this, for it showed that he also recognised that it was not his true master that was thus raging. I recall talking with him shortly after his master's death. After paying his character a fine tribute he spoke of his illness. "You see, sir," he said at last, "what was at the bottom of it all was he 'ad no staminer, no staminer NO STAMINER, sir."

Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - John Forster : By One of His Friends