ifbrooding

Updated: June 13, 2025

But one day something had happened to change the face of life, and since then the climb to the Deering house had seemed like a dream-flight up a heavenly stairway. Her heart beat faster as she remembered it no longer in a tumult of fright and self-reproach, but softly, peacefully, as ifbrooding over a possession that none could take from her.

Edith Wharton - Tales of Men and Ghosts