long-acting

Updated: May 29, 2025

He found Fleda alone in the breakfast-room, sewing; and for the first time noticed the look his mother had spoken of a look not of sadness, but rather of settled, patient gravity; the more painful to see, because it could only have been wrought by long-acting causes, and might be as slow to do away as it must have been to bring.

Susan Warner - Queechy, Volume I

He found Fleda alone in the breakfast-room, sewing; and for the first time noticed the look his mother had spoken of; a look not of sadness, but rather of settled patient gravity; the more painful to see because it could only have been wrought by long-acting causes, and might be as slow to do away as it must have been to bring.

Susan Warner - Queechy