woman-lady

Updated: May 14, 2025

We were saluted without surprise, and invited in, to be seated. "It isn't often that sloops anchor here," said the old woman-lady, it would be a stretch of politeness to call her their favouryte places being higher up, and lower down, the river." "And how do you account for that, mother?" asked Marble, who seated himself and addressed the mistress of the cottage with a seaman's frankness.

James Fenimore Cooper - Miles Wallingford: Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"