half-retrospective

Updated: May 11, 2025

He shook himself, turning round to me as though he were suddenly ashamed of himself, with a laugh half-shy, half-retrospective. "We all have our dreams," he continued. "But this came too often again and again. The question of death became my constant preoccupation as I grew to think I would never see it, nor hear men speak of it, nor "

Sir Hugh Walpole - The Dark Forest