shrivel-faced

Updated: May 10, 2025

She was brought a long way to a château, one of the oldest and most beautiful in the south of France; and a small, shrivel-faced man in royal clothes met her at the door and carried her up great marble stairs to a chamber lighted by two tall candles, just. They stopped on the threshold for a breath, and the child saw that a woman was lying in the canopied bed a very, very beautiful woman.

Ruth Sawyer - Seven Miles to Arden

And that was why she refused to stay afterward and be taken care of by the shrivel-faced man in that oldest and most beautiful château. Instead she slipped out early one morning, before any one was awake to see and mark the way she went. It is unbelievable, sometimes, how children who have the will to do it can lose themselves.

Ruth Sawyer - Seven Miles to Arden