trait-d'union

Updated: May 6, 2025

I went away in the rich glow that mantles from man's heart to check when he knows that he has made a friend for life. It was only afterwards, when I got home, and hung the labelled key on my library wall, that I realised that old Jaffery and myself had, at least, one thing in common videlicet, the keyless habit. I had often suspected that deep in our souls lurked some hidden trait-d'union.

William John Locke - Jaffery