better-braced

Updated: May 10, 2025

Let mother give me my money oot o' the farm. I'd go to Froswick fast enough. That's the place to get on. I've got friends I'd work up in no time." Laura glanced at him. She said nothing. "You doan't think I would?" he asked her angrily, pausing in his handling of the harness to throw back the challenge of her manner. His wrath seemed to have made him handsomer, better-braced, more alive.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I