machinatory

Updated: May 2, 2025

Gwendolen, after a fiery scene with Margot, in which she calls her a "petty minion," pretty language for a young gentlewoman, "sweeps with unutterable scorn from the room," never, to the reader's huge astonishment, to appear in the story again, and Margot flies with Di Sorno to Grenada, where the Inquisition, consisting apparently of a single monk with a "blazing eye," becomes extremely machinatory.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Certain Personal Matters