half-studious

Updated: May 6, 2025

Here Judge Peyton seemed to have realized his idea of a perfect climate, and a retirement, half-studious, half-active, with something of the seignioralty of the old slaveholder that he had been. Here, too, he had seen the hope of restoring his wife's health for which he had undertaken the overland emigration more than fulfilled in Mrs.

Bret Harte - Susy, a story of the Plains