goothe's

Updated: May 5, 2025

The little gas-fitter was clearly all nervous fidget and expectation; the other, large and gaunt in figure, with a square impassive face, and close-shut lips that had a perpetual mocking twist in the corners, stood beside him like some clumsy modern version, in a commoner clay, of Goothe's 'spirit that denies. Robert came forward with a roll of papers in his hands.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Robert Elsmere