too-ruddy

Updated: May 14, 2025

This eldest daughter, with her too-ruddy face, had shyly drawn near, and taken a chair at her father's elbow, where she sat very quietly, busily tatting. Plain though her face was, she had beautiful hands. Her play with thread and shuttle, just under Guthrie's eyes, held them watchful for a time the time during which no sign of Deborah's white gown was to be perceived upon the landscape.

Ada Cambridge - Sisters