baby-bent

Updated: August 13, 2026

In the natural order of her pleasantly migratory, luxurious life, she had rarely come into close contact with careworn or strained faces; this contact through the small, clear lenses seemed startlingly close. Stefana's lean and anxious face, the child's baby-bent little back, like the back of an old woman it was at these Miss Theodosia looked through her pearl glasses.

Annie Hamilton Donnell - Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings