gretchen-like

Updated: May 5, 2025

Faces, some of them, among the very young girls especially, of a rose-tinted fairness, and subtly expressive, the dark brows arching on white foreheads, the features straight and clean, the heads well carried, as though conscious of ancestry and tradition; faces, also, of the bourgeoisie, of a simpler, Gretchen-like beauty; faces a few of "intellectuals," as he fancied, including the girl with the novel? not always handsome, but arresting, and sometimes noble.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Delia Blanchflower