diaphanousness

Updated: June 18, 2025

But when there's no gentleman and nothing and nobody respectable people with their livings to make have got to protect themselves." The woman had no intention of being insolent. Her simple statement that her employer's death had left "Nothing" and "Nobody" was prompted by no consciously ironic realization of the diaphanousness of Feather.

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Head of the House of Coombe