sweetly-grave

Updated: July 26, 2026

Clendon assented; he glanced at the slight, girlish figure in its black dress, at the beautiful face, with its clear and sweetly-grave eyes, the soft, dark hair, the mobile lips with a little droop at the ends which told its story so plainly to the world-worn old man who noted it. "And you work in the Reading Room all day?" "Yes," said Celia, cheerfully, and with something like pride.

Charles Garvice - The Woman's Way