water-and-brandy

Updated: May 28, 2025

Then she swayed out of her mother's arms. It was Julie who caught her, who laid her once more on the deck-chair a broken, shrunken form, in whom all the threads and connections of life had suddenly, as it were, fallen to ruin. Lady Blanche hung over her, pushing Julie away, gathering the unconscious girl madly in her arms. Delafield rushed for water-and-brandy.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Lady Rose's Daughter