pale-fronted

Updated: May 7, 2025

She was experiencing the same utter desolation but somehow less noble as had gripped her when she first realized the eternal picture, in Oceana Nox, of the pale-fronted widows who, tired of waiting for those whose barque had never returned out of the tempest, talked quietly among themselves of the lost stirring the cinders in the fireplace and in their hearts.... Yet Sarah Gailey was not even a widow.

Arnold Bennett - Hilda Lessways