skybacked

Updated: May 12, 2025

'I wish he would come down, she whispered, still gazing at the skybacked picture. 'It is so dangerous to be absent-minded up there. When she had done murmuring the words her father indecisively laid hold of one of the scaffold-poles, as if to test its strength, then let it go and stepped back. In stepping, his foot slipped.

Thomas Hardy - Desperate Remedies