Sentence:  And so it had <WSD>always</WSD> pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties ; and his expectations has waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay,nb.... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals (opposed to sometimes or occasionally).