"Distrustfulness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... into its most adamantine Sunday grimness, as Zack was brought to say his lesson at his father's knees. He got through it perfectly again; but his childish manner, during this third trial, altered from frankness to distrustfulness; and he looked much oftener, while he said his task, at Mr. Goodworth than at his father. When the texts had been repeated, Mr. Thorpe just said to his wife, before resuming his book—"You may tell the nurse, my dear, to get Zachary's dinner ready for him—though he doesn't deserve it for ...
— Hide and Seek • Wilkie Collins |
