half-grateful

Updated: May 7, 2025

The children paid her affectionate duty, young madam did her half-grateful, half-vexed homage, the Vicar and Master Rowland deferred to her in her widowhood and dependence, and with little less grace and reverence than what she had taught them to practise when they were lads under tutelage. She was, in fact, the fully accredited mistress of Larks' Hall.

Sarah Tytler - Girlhood and Womanhood: The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes