unrightfully

Updated: May 28, 2025

He stayed on the roof until all was still below, and finally descended, with quite a new feeling about his neighbour. Her voice, like her figure, inspired respect, if one did not choose to call it admiration. Her door was shut, the transom was dark; nothing remained of her but the obtrusive trunk, unrightfully taking up room in the narrow hall. For two days Hedger didn't see her.

Willa Sibert Cather - Youth and the Bright Medusa