too-fearful

Updated: May 23, 2025

In her father's study hung a little reproduction of a tiny picture in the Louvre, a "Rape of Europa," by an unknown painter a humorous delicate thing, of an enraptured; fair-haired girl mounted on a prancing white bull, crossing a shallow stream, while on the bank all her white girl-companions were gathered, turning half-sour, half-envious faces away from that too-fearful spectacle, while one of them tried with timid desperation to mount astride of a sitting cow, and follow.

John Galsworthy - Saint's Progress