black-cotton-covered

Updated: June 25, 2025

She must be alone think. She would have to write home. Her father would come to fetch her. Her aunt was beyond the reach of appeal. Her artist-life would be over. Everything would be over. She would be dragged back to the Parishing and the Mothers' meetings and the black-cotton-covered books and the Sunday School. And she would never have lived in Paris at all! She walked down the street.

E. (Edith) Nesbit - The Incomplete Amorist