not-to-be-fathomed

Updated: July 6, 2025

Perhaps it was the subtle, not-to-be-fathomed influence of the desert which fights all sham; perhaps it was that Rhoda merely had reached the limit of her heroic self-containment and that, had DeWitt or Newman been with her, she would have given way in the same manner; perhaps it was that the young Indian's presence had in it a quality that roused new life in her.

Honoré Morrow - The Heart of the Desert: Kut-Le of the Desert