glumping

Updated: May 15, 2025

I knew by that smile that it was not resignation she felt; not anything like that lovely willing way in which really good people accept trouble crippled old women in cottages, who will tell you how good God has been to them, when they are as poor as mice, and have never been out of one room for years; and other people who lose everybody they love best, and spend their lives trying to make other people happy, instead of glumping alone.

Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey - The Heart of Una Sackville