joyous-painted

Updated: May 4, 2025

In her parlour was a long-case clock, and inserted into its dial was a ruddy, round, slant-eyed, joyous-painted face, that wagged over with the most ridiculous ogle when the clock ticked, and back again with the same absurd glad-eye at the next tick.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence - Women in Love