ostrich-plume

Updated: June 3, 2025

Moreover, that this young princess of the blood might be accorded all the honors due her birth, lineage, and rank, the colonel's own coach-and-four, with two postilions and old Matthew on the box twenty years in the service his whip tied with forget-me-nots, the horses' ears streaming with white ribbons each flank as smooth as satin and each panel bright as a mirror had been trundled off to Kennedy Square, there to receive the fairest of all her daughters, together with such other members of her royal suite including His Supreme Excellency the Honorable Prim not forgetting, of course, Kate's old black mammy, Henny, who was as much a part of the fair lady's belongings when she went afield as her ostrich-plume fan, her white gloves, or the wee slippers that covered her enchanting feet.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Kennedy Square