un-aristrocratic

Updated: June 28, 2025

Only lately, comparatively speaking, had he discarded the one-storey frame house, in a decidedly un-aristrocratic and objectionable neighborhood, where, nevertheless, fortune was first pleased to smile benignly on his efforts to keep the old leathern purse well filled, and where his now precious, airy, nervous, affected daughters first saw their porridge and potatoes.

[pseud.] Vera - Honor Edgeworth: Ottawa's Present Tense