eagerly-parted

Updated: May 17, 2025

Here two long wax candles were now burning brightly, and, on the oval marble table in the centre of the floor, was a superb silver lamp representing Psyche bending over Cupid, and supporting the finely-cut globe, whose soft radiance streamed down on her burnished wings and eagerly-parted sweet Greek lips.

Augusta J. Evans Wilson - Vashti: or, Until Death Us Do Part