attention-arresting

Updated: May 20, 2025

She so resented the unprofessional bad manners of it, that she turned away and sauntered into the Dresden blue and white library and sat down with a book. She was quite relieved, when, only a few minutes later, he went away having evidently done what he could. The book she had picked up was a new novel and opened with an attention-arresting agreeableness, which led her on.

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Head of the House of Coombe