flutterof

Updated: May 18, 2025

And Lizzie entered the studio with the flutterof one profanely intruding on some sacred rite; she almost heard the rustle of retreating wings as she approached. And then and then how differently it had all turned out! Perhaps it wouldn't have, if she hadn't been such a goose she who so seldom cried, so prided herself on a stoic control of her little twittering cageful of "feelings."

Edith Wharton - Tales of Men and Ghosts