impersonified

Updated: May 14, 2025

The dinner was a very commonplace, lodging-house dinner, and Chatty got out her muslin work afterwards, and had a quiet industrious evening, very much like her evenings at home. She was like a picture of domestic happiness impersonified, as she sat in the light of the lamp with her head bent, the movement of her arm making a soft rustle as she worked.

Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant - A Country Gentleman and his Family