traginc

Updated: May 22, 2025

And quietly, heavily, like an irrevocable sentence, there came, breathed to him as it were from that winter cold and loneliness, words that he had read an hour or two before, in the little red book beside his hand words in which the gayest of French poets has fixed, as though by accident, the most traginc of all human cries 'Quittez le long espoir et les vastes pensées.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Robert Elsmere