numbling

Updated: May 22, 2025

There were no dreams left, only a crushing numbling reality. She thought of her husband, and the question that was always in her mind seemed to-day more than ever insistent. Why had he married her? The reason he had given had been disproved by his subsequent attitude. He had asked her to take pity on a lonely man and he had given her no opportunity.

E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull - The Shadow of the East