softly-falling

Updated: May 5, 2025

There was scarcely a corner that was not draped with some softly-falling, richly-tinted tissue. A delicate perfume breathed through this half-lighted world. Thus, though neither gay nor bright, it realised the effect which in our day, in the time when everything was different, was meant by these words.

Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant - Sir Tom