"Shadowiness" Quotes from Famous Books
... at her departure. He requited her agreeableness with respect. And so they had become engaged—to the unbounded gratification of all his relatives, amidst the congratulations of his friends. There seemed a certain shadowiness in his conception of their future existence together as man and wife: something which he recognised as an interior voice chimed in, from time to time, with provoking interrogations, mostly unanswerable. A plaintive need ... — Robert Orange - Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange • John Oliver Hobbes |