unambitiously

Updated: May 13, 2025

As for Grace, she began to feel troubled; she did not perhaps wish there and then to unambitiously devote her life to Giles Winterborne, but she was conscious of more and more uneasiness at the possibility of being the social hope of the family. "You would like to have more honor, if it pleases me?" asked her father, in continuation of the subject. Despite her feeling she assented to this.

Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders