ever-fond

Updated: May 12, 2025

But while she said it, there was a look in the reader's eye that bespoke inability or reluctance to grapple with the revelation threatened by the discovery. "The letters may tell me more!" she added, in the same frightened whisper, refolding the certificate. They did for they were in the long, sloping chirography of her sister-in-law, and signed "Your ever-fond, but lonely wife."

Marion Harland - At Last