ill-promising

Updated: June 11, 2025

For days Sammy had been in a very ill-promising mood; but he brightened as the foster-parents drove away in the bleak, gray, hostile forenoon, Huldy helping Aunt Cornelia to dress and make ready, tucking her lovingly into the wagon and beneath the thick old quilt. The elder woman yearned over the girl with a mother's compassionate tenderness.

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