sugar-rag

Updated: May 8, 2025

Somebody fetch this sick doll a sugar-rag. Look you, Sir Jean de Metz, do you feel absolutely certain about that thing?" "What thing?" "Why, that Jean and Pierre are going to take precedence of all the lay noblesse hereabouts except the Duke d'Alencon?" "I think there is not a doubt of it."

Mark Twain - Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1