airily-spoken

Updated: May 14, 2025

When he looked round a second or two later that ephemeral fit of remorse did its final vanishing; he had once more encountered the pleasant smile, the laughing if ashen-pale face of his unconquered foe. "Only a passing giddiness, my dear sir," said Sir Percy lightly. "As you were saying " At the airily-spoken words, at the smile that accompanied them, Chauvelin had jumped to his feet.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy - El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel