pleased-eyed

Updated: September 4, 2025

Now seeing this place had once been the abode of some poor castaway, I sought high and low in hopes of finding something to our use if no more than a broken cup, but came on nothing save the ruin of a small table; the place was bare as my hand. I was yet busied in my fruitless search when comes my companion all pleased-eyed wonderment. "Why, 'tis as good as any cottage!" cries she.

Jeffery Farnol - Black Bartlemy's Treasure