hedgeback

Updated: May 21, 2025

So the whole party, together with the Whites, were only spectators in the background, and the procession into church consisted of just the absolutely needful persons -the bride in a delicate nondescript coloured dress, such as none but a French dressmaker could describe, and covered with transparent lace, like, as Mysie averred, a hedgeback full of pig-nut flowers, the justice of the comparison being lost in the ugliness of the name; and as all Rockquay tried to squeeze into the church to see and admire, the beauty was not thrown away.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - Beechcroft at Rockstone