resigned-to-ill-usage

Updated: May 22, 2025

Why did you engage such a damned ass, eh?" Miss Tabitha preserved a prudent silence, seeing that the butler, a serious-looking personage with a resigned-to-ill-usage demeanour, was already engaged in assisting the hapless footman to remove the remains of the spilt condiment, from the offended gaze of his irate master.

Marie Corelli - God's Good Man