too-well-pleased

Updated: May 3, 2025

It was the best way; the wisest way; the way Solomon found most congenial, despite its end in 'vanity and vexation of spirit. But with the passing of the years a veil had been dropped over that path of roses, hiding it altogether from his sight; and another veil rose inch by inch before him, disclosing a new and less joyous prospect on which he was not too-well-pleased to look.

Marie Corelli - Temporal Power