She had risen and was walking about the room, her fat, worn face sharpening with a sort of animal alertness into power and protection. The claws that hide in every maternal creature slipped out of the fur of good manners.


The Rising Tide (1916)

Margaret Deland Quotes

She had risen and was walking about the room, her fat, worn face sharpening with a sort of animal alertness into power and protection. The claws that ...

She had risen and was walking about the room, her fat, worn face sharpening with a sort of animal alertness into power and protection. The claws that ...

She had risen and was walking about the room, her fat, worn face sharpening with a sort of animal alertness into power and protection. The claws that ...

She had risen and was walking about the room, her fat, worn face sharpening with a sort of animal alertness into power and protection. The claws that ...