chancefully

Updated: May 21, 2025

Would it not be wiser, even more manly, for him a man over twice her years to leave her alone with her secret, and so pass out of her innocent young life as chancefully as he had entered it? But was it altogether chanceful? Was there not in her innocent happiness in him a recognition of something in him better than he had dared to think himself? It was the last conceit of the humility of love.

Bret Harte - In a Hollow of the Hills