pink-and-blue-ribboned

Updated: May 11, 2025

As it was now, her social future here needed to end satisfactorily in order to justify herself to herself, and, she thought, to him. "You may put the sandwiches in the ice-box," she said to Louis, the butler, after one of the earliest of the "at home" failures, referring to the undue supply of pink-and-blue-ribboned titbits which, uneaten, honored some fine Sevres with their presence.

Theodore Dreiser - The Titan