magpie-colouring

Updated: June 21, 2025

Four lacqueys, in the same magpie-colouring, stood behind, and outriders followed; but as the cavalcade approached the group by the road-side, one of the horsemen paused, saying lightly, 'Over near the walls from an affair of honour! Has he caught it badly? Who was the other?

Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Chaplet of Pearls