close-fettered

Updated: May 11, 2025

It seemed that she was to be kept by some fatality close-fettered to the task, the hopeless task, which she would now gladly have foregone. And she wondered whether, after all, she was in some way meant to watch the plot, perhaps, after all, to hinder it. "Hilary," she said, "you remember that evening at the Chalet de Lognan?" "Do I remember it?"

A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason - Running Water