ponderations

Updated: June 7, 2025

It had come to pass that very day, from one hour to another, without time for appeals or ponderations: Mr. Bousefield, the proprietor of a "high-class monthly," making, as they said, a sudden change, had dropped on him heavily out of the blue. It was all right there was a salary and an idea, and both of them, as such things went, rather high.

Henry James - Embarrassments