deep-paved

Updated: May 25, 2025

I am seated in my snug little room at M. Belloc's. The weather is overpoweringly hot, but these Parisian houses seem to have seized and imprisoned coolness. French household ways are delightful. I like their seclusion from the street, by these deep-paved quadrangles.

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2