half-belonged

Updated: June 10, 2025

You'll make yourself happier and others too. And all he had to do was to write a cheque, and send the poor girl off for a holiday! "The hardest part of it was that the money half-belonged to us already. The old skin-flint only had it for life, in trust for us and the others.

Edith Wharton - Tales of Men and Ghosts

You'll make yourself happier and others too. And all he had to do was to write a cheque, and send the poor girl off for a holiday! "The hardest part of it was that the money half-belonged to us already. The old skin-flint only had it for life, in trust for us and the others.

Edith Wharton - The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1