just-appearing

Updated: May 19, 2025

Lemm, who was conducting him to the door, immediately consented, pressing his hand cordially. But when he found himself alone in the fresh, damp air, beneath the just-appearing dawn, he looked round, half-shut his eyes, bent himself together, and crept back, like a culprit, to his bed-room. He tried to make out that he was ill when, a few days later, Lavretsky's carriage came for him.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev - Liza: "A nest of nobles"