self-assertiveness

Updated: May 14, 2025

What an abundance of self-assertiveness he had contrived to express in his thin spruce figure, his tightly curling black hair, which grew too low on his forehead, and his short black moustache with pointed ends which curved up like polished metal from his full red lips. "I suppose he is on his way to the Governor," mused the young man idly. "How on earth does Vetch stand him?"

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow - One Man in His Time