half-mirthless

Updated: May 20, 2025

It was just as whimsical as before, and just as half-mirthless gentle as it always had been whenever he thought at all of her but there was no wistful hunger left in it, and little of boyishness, and nothing of lurking self-doubt. "Why, she couldn't have known," he went on then, still murmuring aloud. "She couldn't have been expected to believe anything else. I I'm not much to look at just now."

Larry Evans - Once to Every Man