dumb-suffering

Updated: May 21, 2025

Jack, however, was evidently a large gentle swain of the dumb-suffering type one of those unresisting leviathans of good-humour, upon whom a woman loves to vent that passion of the illogical which an antipathetic sex has vainly tried to laugh her out of conceit with. I peered a little longer, and presently saw Mr. Curtice walk off in a state compound of bewilderment and abject depression.

Bernard Edward Joseph Capes - At a Winter's Fire