scroll-and-silk

Updated: June 26, 2025

Head back and gaze into the scroll-and-silk front of the piano, the melody would again, like a curve of gold, shape itself into the lovely form of a proscenium arch. "Lilly, that is beautiful. Play the tune part over again." The tingling that would actually gooseflesh her would die down as surely as a ringing crystal tumbler, had she closed her warm little hand over it.

Fannie Hurst - Star-Dust