damask-cheek

Updated: June 20, 2025

She had laughed deprecatingly at the paternal affection, doubtfully at the avuncular, nervously at the cousinly, angrily at the brotherly, and not at all at the manly. In fact as the declaration of manly love had been accompanied by an endeavour to salute what the General had called her damask-cheek she had slapped the General's own cheek a resounding blow.... "Called you 'Mrs.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life