on-purpose

Updated: July 11, 2026

While they were taking their coffee, poured from the earthen jug, in the thick old Rouen cups, the Divorcée said: "How I'd love to own a place like this. No one would ever dream of building such a house. It has taken centuries of accumulated needs to expand it into being. If one tried to do the thing all at once it would look too on-purpose.

Mildred Aldrich - Told in a French Garden: August, 1914