half-repaid

Updated: May 8, 2025

So day after day Cecil passed in the smoking-room, only hurrying out for a short drive or constitutional; and half-repaid by the gloomy complaint, "How long yon have been!" when she re-entered. Du Meresq's correspondence, too, as we have before hinted, was not calming.

Mrs. G. C. Huddleston - Bluebell: A Novel