half-desiring

Updated: May 25, 2025

In the morning he went to his dressing-room, had his bath, and went down to breakfast, half-desiring his wife's appearance, that he might begin his course of vindictive torture. He could not eat, and was just rising to go out, when the door opened, and the parlor-maid, who served also as Juliet's attendant, appeared. "I can't find mis'ess nowhere, sir," she said.

George MacDonald - Paul Faber, Surgeon