taking-it-for-granted

Updated: May 6, 2025

"She has not spoken a word to me about it, but she has accepted them," said Lucia. "I don't quite understand her lately, Octavia. She must be very fond of Francis Barold. He never gives way to her in the least, and she always seems to submit to him. I know she would not have let me go, if he had not insisted on it, in that taking-it-for-granted way of his." Naturally Mr.

Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Fair Barbarian