She might have heard of his marriage to a girl of his own land and class with only a passing spasm, but his continued and possibly tender friendship with her sister-in-law shook her out of the last of her jejunity and its illusions....
"The Sisters-In-Law"
Gertrude Atherton
It was incredible to him that any one who had read history could be guilty of such jejunity, and he attributed it to their bruised but itching egos.
"Black Oxen"
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton