hedged-up

Updated: June 10, 2025

Was she strong enough to walk this hedged-up path alone? single-hearted enough to go on holding out against her mother's urgings, against Ormsby's masterful wooing, against her own unconquerable longing for a sure anchorage in some safe haven of manful care and supervision; all this that she might continue to preserve her independence and live the life which, despite its drawbacks, was yet her own?

Francis Lynde - The Grafters