sedulously-cultivated

Updated: June 19, 2025

If, to carry on the metaphor, Grancy's life was a sedulously-cultivated enclosure, his wife was the flower he had planted in its midst the embowering tree, rather, which gave him rest and shade at its foot and the wind of dreams in its upper branches. We had all his small but devoted band of followers known a moment when it seemed likely that Grancy would fail us.

Edith Wharton - Crucial Instances