half-husky

Updated: May 10, 2025

Martie was listening with a half-smile to the children's eager chatter, and thinking vaguely that Clifford might ask her to-day, or might not ask her for three years, when a half-shy, half-husky aside from him, and a sudden exchange of glances ended the speculation once and for all. "Makes me feel a little bit out of it, seeing all the boys with their wives," he said, with a rueful laugh.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Martie, the Unconquered