just-too-long-for-pardoning

Updated: May 11, 2025

"Chawley" Hathaway looked unutterable things, and the little mouse-eyes looked back unutterable things, with that lingering, just-too-long-for-pardoning glance that a certain kind of men and women employ when they want to loiter near the danger-line and toy with vital things.

Grace Livingston Hill - The Witness