over-habituated

Updated: May 10, 2025

Each day he grew a shade paler, a degree feebler, but the change came too gradually for the unobservant and over-habituated eyes of his wife. Rosy noticed it, however, when she came back to town, to begin seriously her preparations for her wedding. "I don't think papa looks very well," she was contented to observe. "Of course he doesn't," returned Jane, anxiously.

Henry Blake Fuller - With the Procession