Excerpt from The Invisible Man

H. G. Wells

‘As soon as the bacon was well underway, and Millie, her lymphatic aid had been brisked up a bit, by a few deftly chosen words of contempt, she carried the cloth, plates, and glasses into the parlour and began to lay them with the utmost eclat.’

What does the term lymphatic mean as it is used in the sentence?

Responses

sluggish
sluggish

cheerful
cheerful

energetic
energetic

relating to a lymph node
relating to a lymph node

1 answer

sluggish