"Covertness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of these appreciations in herself as she watched him with that serene covertness, not at all aware that her senses were lending her a hand in her struggle for possession and ascendancy, and giving to her hold on the new and threatened belonging a peculiar tenacity. But she did tell herself, again and again, with pride ...
— A Fountain Sealed • Anne Douglas Sedgwick |
