effacedness

Updated: May 7, 2025

Still the apartment, though compact as an army mess-kit, was perfectly furnished and the maid who had served the cool little dinner an efficient effacedness of the race that housekeepers with large families and little money assert passed with the Spanish War. Money enough, and the knowledge of how to use it without blatancy or pinching that would have been the second conclusion.

Stephen Vincent Benét - Young People's Pride : A Novel