half-musings

Updated: April 30, 2025

Covering the cup, he dallied languidly with the delicious beverage, and with the half-thoughts, half-musings, that came with the dreamy indolence of the weather. Was it, indeed, ten years, ten, nay, fifteen years, that he had lived this China-life? The door swung softly open, and a servant brought a note, and stood waiting for him to read it.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863