semi-servility

Updated: May 25, 2025

You should have gone to the basement." "It isn't, miss," said the young man, in a form of address, the semi-servility of which seemed distinctly out of tone with the quietly clear and assured voice. "It's the insects." "The what?" "The bugs, miss." He extracted from his pocket a slip of paper, looked from it to the numbered door, as one verifying an address, and handed it to her.

Samuel Hopkins Adams - Average Jones