souuded

Updated: June 8, 2025

She looked ten years older, and it would have souuded very perverse now to speak of her as pretty. But I thought her so; or at least I thought her touching. She was peculiarly agitated. I tried to appear not to notice it; but suddenly, in the most inconsequent fashion, it was an irresistible memory of our little friendship at Havre, I said to her, "I do incommode you. You are distressed."

Henry James - Four Meetings

They looked round them confusedly, made shy for the moment by Benyon's having struck a note more serious than any that had hitherto souuded between them, looked at the sparse furniture, draped in white overalls, at the scagiiola floor, in which the great cluster of crystal pendants seemed to shine again. "You are master of your ship. Can't you sail it as you like?" Kate Theory asked, with a smile.

Henry James - Georgina's Reasons