downhearted-like

Updated: June 14, 2025

"Tolerable, thank you. Sammy, my husband, he ain't been earnin' as much as usual lately, but I says to him, when he's downhearted-like because he can't hand out the price o' the rent, 'Say, you ain't fished up much of anythin' certaintly, but count your blessin's. You ain't fell in the river either. An' be this an' be that, we make out to get along. We never died a winter yet."

Julie Mathilde Lippmann - Martha By-the-Day