professoras

Updated: May 21, 2025

Clopin's Pension Suisse at Passy, and if one has pretty brown hair and eyes that reach out trustfully to other eyes one does not, under these common but defenseless conditions, arrive at the age of twenty-five without being now and then kissed, waylaid once by a noisy student between two doors, surprised once by one's gray-bearded professoras one bent over the "theme" he was correcting, but these episodes, if they tarnish the surface, do not reach the heart: itis not the kiss endured, but the kiss returned, that lives.

Edith Wharton - Tales of Men and Ghosts