type-seeker

Updated: October 14, 2025

On her face and in her eyes, remorseless type-seeker, is the typical shop-girl expression. It is a look of silent but contemptuous revolt against cheated womanhood; of sad prophecy of the vengeance to come. When she laughs her loudest the look is still there.

O. Henry - The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million