gladsome-looking

Updated: May 15, 2025

It was caressing, deferential, half-humorously protecting. She liked to shock and soothe them by turns; and they generally yielded themselves gladly, after a little struggle, both to the shocking and to the soothing. Miss Farrow and Helen Brabazon sat down at the further end of the delightful, gladsome-looking room.

Marie Belloc Lowndes - From out the Vasty Deep