flushed-faced

Updated: May 29, 2025

Strange antithesis to that other night when these four were gathered in that crime-reeked, sordid room at the Roost where Pale Face Harry, gaunt, emaciated, coughed, and, trembling, plunged a morphine needle in his arm; where the Flopper, a wretched tatterdemalion from the gutter, licked greedy lips and gloated in his rascality; where Helena, flushed-faced, inhaled her interminable cigarettes and dangled her legs from the table edge; where Madison, suave, flippant, so certain of his own infallibility, glorying in his crooked masterpiece, laid the tribute to genius at his own feet!

Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard - The Miracle Man