Christmas Roses and Other Stories : 9781514893500

"[...]in her appeal and dignity. She sat in her nurse's arms, her eyes fixed on her great-aunt, and, as Mrs. Delafield held out her hands to her, she unhesitatingly, if unsmilingly, answered, leaning forward to be taken. She was a pale, delicate baby, her narrow little face framed in straightly cut dark hair, her mournful little lips only tinted with a rosy mauve; and, under long, fine brows, her great eyes were full of meditativeness. Rhoda, though now so richly a brunette, had, as a baby, been ruddy-haired and rosy-cheeked, with eyes of a velvety, submerging darkness. Jane Amoret's grey iris rayed out from the expanded pupil like the corolla of a flower.[...]."

Author: Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Jul 09, 2015

Number of Pages: 218 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1514893509

ISBN-13: 9781514893500