bitterly-sneering

Updated: May 19, 2025

I cry, passionately; "what right has she to be sitting all day with young men on stools at her feet? she, a married woman, with her husband " "This comes extremely well from you," he says, in a voice of concentrated anger, with a bitterly-sneering tone; "how is Musgrave?" Before I can answer, he has jumped out, and is half-way back to the house. But indeed I am dumb.

Rhoda Broughton - Nancy