too-sympathetic

Updated: May 13, 2025

Only let it be conceived with sufficient force and nourished by continual attention and it will grow into a veritable highwayman of the mind a thievish tyrant of one's mental roads, holding their more legitimate travellers at the stand and deliver. Desire, usually so clearsighted, ought to have seen that the attentions of Benis to the too-sympathetic Mary were hollow at the core.

Isabel Ecclestone Mackay - The Window-Gazer