parlour-work

Updated: May 20, 2025

'Haven't I done parlour-work for six months? no amateurs, please! And again, even while he talked on, Arthur's eyes would stray after the young full figure, the white neck and throat, the head with the soft hair folded close around it in wavy bands that followed all its lines as it might have been the head of one of those terra-cottas that her father had stolen from the Greek tombs in his youth.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Elizabeth's Campaign