hushin'-up

Updated: May 8, 2025

"The moon was noon-high by then an' filterin' down through the leaves wonderful soft, an' things was still I remember thinkin' it was like the hushin'-up before a bride comes in, but there wasn't any bride. "When we come to our house just as we begun to smell the savoury bed clear out there on the walk we heard something ... a little bit of a noise that I couldn't put a name to, first.

Zona Gale - Friendship Village