wax-dollish

Updated: May 28, 2025

So that when, one fine spring morning, about three months before the time of which I am writing, the postman brought him the wedding cards of Sir Michael and Lady Audley, together with a very indignant letter from his cousin, setting forth how her father had just married a wax-dollish young person, no older than Alicia herself, with flaxen ringlets, and a perpetual giggle; for I am sorry to say that Miss Audley's animus caused her thus to describe that pretty musical laugh which had been so much admired in the late Miss Lucy Graham when, I say, these documents reached Robert Audley they elicited neither vexation nor astonishment in the lymphatic nature of that gentleman.

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - Lady Audley's Secret