late-accomplished

Updated: May 17, 2025

In America, nothing awaited him but that worst form of disappointment which comes under the guise of a long-cherished and late-accomplished purpose, and then a year or two of dry and barren sojourn in an almshouse, and death among strangers at last, where he had imagined a circle of familiar faces.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches: A Series of English Sketches