unknowably

Updated: May 18, 2025

The great room, with its costly furnishings, the tea-table crowded with silver and fragile porcelain, the kettle purring contentedly above the iridescent flame of the alcohol lamp, above all, the subtle, indefinable suggestion of femininity which unknowably pervaded his surroundings, all these enthralled young Nisbet beyond expression, and awed him immeasurably, into the bargain.

Guy Wetmore Carryl - The Lieutenant-Governor : A Novel