half-disgraced

Updated: May 16, 2025

I know it sounds insolent of me, but, after all, it is only being bold with the woman for whom half-disgraced, insignificant, but unquenchable fellow as I am I'd do as much as, and, maybe, dare more for than any one of the men who would marry her if they could."

Gilbert Parker - Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete