flax-smooth

Updated: May 15, 2025

Despite fifty years, or near it, the flax-smooth hair held no glint of gray; his eyes, blue and big and wide, were sharp and bright, calm, confident, almost candid not quite the last, because of a roving trick of clandestine observation; his mouth, where it might or should have curved must once have curved in boyhood was set and guarded, even in skillful smilings, by a long censorship of undesirable facts, material or otherwise to any possible issue.

Eugene Manlove Rhodes - Copper Streak Trail