citizenly

Updated: July 9, 2025

Perhaps no circumstances could have extenuated the old man's surly manners or his lack of all citizenly graces and virtues; but his neighbors commonly rebuked his present way of living and forgot the troubled past that had brought it about: the sharp-tongued wife, the unloving and disloyal sons, the daughter's hapless fate, and all the other sorry tricks that fortune had played upon him at least that was the way in which he had always regarded his disappointments and griefs.

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - New Chronicles of Rebecca