woman-hortense

Updated: July 29, 2025

For when the figure glided into the slant blue rays of the shafted flame it was Hortense the Hortense of the dreams, sweet as the child, grave as the grown woman-Hortense with closed eyes and moving lips and hands feeling out in the dark as if playing invisible keys. She was asleep. Then came the flash that lighted the clouds of the past.

Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut - Heralds of Empire: Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade