half-enemy

Updated: June 14, 2025

Nikolaus said: "Father Peter, with the exception of the astrologer you haven't a real enemy in the village nor Marget, either. And not even a half-enemy that's rich enough to chance eleven hundred ducats to do you a mean turn. I'll ask you if that's so or not?" He couldn't get around that argument, and it cheered him up. "But it isn't mine, you see it isn't mine, in any case."

Mark Twain - The Mysterious Stranger