unexactingness

Updated: July 11, 2026

Lady Maria's frank congratulation of herself and Lord Walderhurst in his wife's entire unexactingness had indeed been the outcome of a half-formed intention to dissipate amiably even the vaguest inclination to verge on expecting things from people.

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Emily Fox-Seton : Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst"