old-lace

Updated: June 14, 2025

The old-lace coif she wore suited her waved and grizzled hair, and was carried with conscious dignity; the hand, which lay beside her on the table, though long and bony, was full of nervous distinction. Mrs. Watton was, and looked, a tyrant but a tyrant of ability.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Sir George Tressady — Volume I