Belinda the Backward: A Romance of Modern Idealism (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Belinda the Backward: A Romance of Modern Idealism

Among the little group gathered together in Dorset, which some were pleased to call a Colony and some a Settlement, there was hardly an individual whose special characteristic or distinguishing quality was not hit off more or less accurately by some other member of the group. Although it was not always so easy to do this in a Single sentence, as had been done in my case, yet in nearly every instance there was a subtle something In the name given, or it might be only a prefix, or the shortening of the christian or surname, which conveyed to the observant listener some idea of the character of the person mentioned.

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