stripe-faced

Updated: May 24, 2025

He had thought, coming home Monday night, that he and she would take a little walk, in the lingering dusk of the cool spring evening, and perhaps see the twelfth installment of "The Stripe-Faced Terror," which was playing in the near-by moving-picture house. But he found her in a new mood, almost awed with an unexpected ecstasy in which he had no part would never have a part.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - The Beloved Woman