hopelessly-black

Updated: February 20, 2026

Of all the people who were to assist at Sir Philip Jocelyn's wedding, perhaps the father of the bride was the person who seemed least affected by that drizzling rain, that hopelessly-black sky. If Henry Dunbar was grave and silent to-day, why that was nothing new: for he was always grave and silent.

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - Henry Dunbar : A Novel