rosy-mauve

Updated: May 21, 2025

The large coolness of the room, its fine traditional air of spacious living, its outlook over field and woodland toward the lake lying under the silver bloom of September; the very scent of the late violets in a glass on the writing-table; the rosy-mauve masses of hydrangea in tubs along the terrace; the fall, now and then, of a leaf through the still air all, somehow, were mingled in the suffusion of well-being that yet made them seem but so much dross upon its current.

Edith Wharton - Sanctuary