irreclaimableness

Updated: May 23, 2025

The tragedy of the woman's death, and of his own share in it, were as nothing in the disaster of his bright irreclaimableness. Once, when she had cried out, "You would have married me and said nothing," and he groaned back, "But I have told you," she felt like a trainer with a lash above some bewildered animal. But she persisted savagely.

Edith Wharton - Sanctuary