semi-resentful

Updated: June 22, 2025

I went in just now, and there I found her dragging herself about the damp brewhouse. I had desired that she should not get out of her bed." "Too much bed don't do nobody much good, sir," returned the man in a semi-resentful tone. "There's the work to do the washing. If she don't do it, who will?"

Mrs. Henry Wood - Verner's Pride