yellow-plastered

Updated: May 3, 2025

The hour, the atmosphere, the place, the twinkling taper, the sentiment of the observer, the thought that some one had been rescued here from an assassin or from some other peril and had set up a little grateful altar in consequence, against the yellow-plastered wall of a tangled <i>podere</i>; all this led me to approach the shrine with a reverent, an emotional step.

Henry James - Italian Hours