shifting-eyed

Updated: July 17, 2025

He's in Mackey's drug store, talkin' awful queer. He ain't his self, ye know. They thought maybe you could do somethin'." Jane went at once but she could do nothing except to lead gently home the chattering, shifting-eyed thing that had once been her father. One after another the village physicians shook their heads they could do nothing.

Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter - Across the Years