trebling

Updated: June 23, 2025

Whether, now that our children are growing up, and our income is doubling and trebling year by year, we ought to widen our circle of usefulness, or close it up permanently within the quiet bound of little Longfield. Love, which say you?" "The latter, the latter because it is far the happiest." "I am afraid, NOT the latter, because it IS the happiest."

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - John Halifax, Gentleman