slow-multiplying

Updated: June 27, 2025

I was stiff with her and difficult to her, because even on my wedding morning there had been, deep down in my soul, voiceless though present, something weakly protesting, a faint perception of wrong-doing, the infinitesimally small, slow-multiplying germs of shame. I made my breach with the party on the Budget. In many ways I was disposed to regard the 1909 Budget as a fine piece of statecraft.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The New Machiavelli