It was a nondecisive victory, leaving open the possibility of a second attack.

Franchise, relaxed and soothed by the vagueness of a surrender set so far in the future, simply took hold of his two hands to make him behave himself and looked at him with her pretty pleading eyes — the eyes of a sensitive woman who didn't want to risk having a child by anyone but her husband.

You're a real grip.

She arrived at the cabin at that late hour of the evening when the languescent river darkened to green-black satin, […]