hard-to-work

Updated: May 20, 2025

But a good business temper, Denas, be a different thing; it be steady, patient, civil, quiet, hard-to-work temper, and the young man has not got it. No, nor the shadow of it. If he was worth thousands this year he wouldn't have a farthing next year unless he had a guider and a withholder by his side constantly." "You ought not to speak of Mr. Roland at all, father, you hate him that badly."

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr - A Singer from the Sea