evening-sale

Updated: June 2, 2025

I dismissed my cab at the top of the Rue du Faubourg Montmatre, and went up to the house on foot. A flower-girl sat in the shade of the archway, tying up her flowers for the evening-sale, and I bought a cluster of white roses for Hortense as I went by.

Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - In the Days of My Youth