unsobered

The volatile Countess – unsobered even under the very shadow of the guillotine – is as lifelike a creation as has ever fluttered through the pages of a novel, while Mrs. Somers – hospitable, strenuous, well-meaning, generous, the possessor of many virtues and of one failing – huffiness – is a person with whom most of us have at one time or other made acquaintance.

Maria Edgeworth 1905