http://wordie.org/words/laches Comments for the word 'Laches' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/laches#comments from Middlemarch, of course, since it has to do with duty. Farebrother is the one suffering from laches. This is just a few paragraphs from the excellent sentence, "But Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly--something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates." Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:19:53 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/laches#comments