cream-and-rose

Updated: May 1, 2025

Mary, a year ago, would have been ready to prophesy that if ever Simon Loggerheads at his age! did marry, he would assuredly marry something young, something ingenuous, something cream-and-rose, and probably something with rich parents. For twenty years Simon Loggerheads had been marked down for capture by the marriageable spinsters and widows, and the mothers with daughters, of Bursley.

Arnold Bennett - The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories