gleamless

Updated: May 19, 2025

It was only the Vicomte who paused at intervals during his frugal meal, and looked across the table towards the young girl with those deep, impenetrable eyes shadowless, gleamless, like velvet. When bedtime at length arrived, she was quite glad to get away from that kind, unobtrusive scrutiny of which she alone was aware.

Henry Seton Merriman - The Slave of the Lamp