scarlet-curtained

Updated: June 3, 2025

Indolent and self-indulgent, she neither brooked dictation, nor gracefully accepted any suggestions at variance with the reigning whim; for, since she became an inmate of Miss Jane's hospitable home, existence had been a mere dreamy, aimless succession of golden dawns and scarlet-curtained sunsets a slow, quiet lapsing of weeks into months, an almost stagnant stream curled by no eddies, freighted with few aspirations, bearing no drift.

Augusta J. Evans Wilson - Vashti: or, Until Death Us Do Part