nothing-loath

Updated: May 11, 2025

He cared little or nothing about it it was time enough to be married ten years hence; and so he was dawdling through some months of his life sometimes flirting with the nothing-loath Miss Duncombe, sometimes plaguing, and sometimes delighting his mother, at all times taking care to please himself when he first saw Ruth Hilton, and a new, passionate, hearty feeling shot through his whole being.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Ruth