calico-flowers

Updated: June 17, 2025

Behind Sophy's chair, and sticking calico-flowers into the child's tresses, stood the senior matron of the establishment, not a bad sort of woman, who kept the dresses, nursed the sick, revered Rugge, told fortunes on a pack of cards which she always kept in her pocket, and acted occasionally in parts where age was no drawback and ugliness desirable, such as a witch, or duenna, or whatever in the dialogue was poetically called "Hag."

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - What Will He Do with It? — Volume 04