prepossesses

Updated: July 16, 2026

So young was the rider that he seemed still a boy. On his smooth countenance all that most prepossesses in early youth left its witching stamp. A smile, at once gay and sweet, played on his lips. There was a charm, even in a certain impatient petulance, in his quick eye and the slight contraction of his delicate brows. Almaviva might well have been jealous of such a page.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Lucretia — Volume 04