all-angelic

Updated: May 5, 2025

Just in the shadow, the raven locks of Ellinor were bowed over her clasped hands, nothing of her face visible; the graceful neck and heaving breast alone distinguished from the shadow; and, hushed in a death-like and solemn repose, the parted lips moving inaudibly; the eye fixed on vacancy; the wan transparent hands, crossed upon her bosom; the light shone with a more softened and tender ray upon the faded but all-angelic form and countenance of her, for whom Heaven was already preparing its eternal recompense for the ills of Earth!

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Eugene Aram — Complete