Pray, sir, is it my infelicitous allusion to Miss Light's marriage?
"Roderick Hudson"
Henry James
It 's your infelicitous everything!
"Roderick Hudson"
Henry James
Her answer was as follows:-The Priory, North Bank, Regent's Park, September 4, 1876. Dear Madam-Owing to an absence of some months, it was only the other day that I read your kind letter of April 17; and, although I have long been obliged to give up answering the majority of letters addressed to me, I felt much pleased that you had given me an opportunity of answering one from you; for I have always remembered your visit with a regretful feeling that I had probably caused you some pain by a rather unwise effort to give you a reception which the state of my health at the moment made altogether blundering and infelicitous.
"An Autobiography"
Catherine Helen Spence