make-belief-mourning

Updated: May 15, 2025

Whereupon Mrs Mackenzie, without further speech to her cousin on the subject, went out and purchased a muslin covered all over with the prettiest little frecks of black, and sent a milliner to Margaret, and provided a bonnet of much the same pattern, the gayest, lightest, jauntiest, falsest, most make-belief-mourning bonnet that ever sprang from the art of a designer in bonnets and thus nearly broke poor Margaret's heart.

Anthony Trollope - Miss Mackenzie