dust-tainted

Updated: September 17, 2025

Feeling very lonely and restless she closed the door, and sat down in the deserted waiting-room, glad of the companionship of a tortoise-shell cat which was curled up on a chair next her own. Gradually the storm approached, and she thought that an hour had elapsed, when the dust-tainted smell of rain came with the rush of cold air.

Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans - At the Mercy of Tiberius