oft-worn

Updated: July 27, 2026

Grown to girlhood, the sprite of the laboratory, who had looked through a spectroscope at seven, clapping her small hands over the fairy colors pure red, orange, green, blue, violet, separated by little dark, thread-like lines, each representing some element in that far-away upper air which her father hoped to master preferred for herself the boyish Pem to the oft-worn Rose.

Isabel Hornibrook - Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl