carrotina

Updated: May 31, 2025

She threw herself madly into physical exercises like dancing or skating; and excelled in most of them by virtue of a certain wild grace, a tameless strength of spirits and will. And yet she grew up small and pale; and it was not till she was about eighteen that she suddenly blossomed into prettiness. "Carrotina why, what's happened to you?" said her father to her one day.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I