withered-leaf

Updated: May 14, 2025

And in this same parlour at Arbitt Lodge had that little Marmaduke learned to walk, and then to run, to gaze with admiring eyes on the treasures in the glass cupboards, to play bo-peep behind the thick silken curtains, even in his time faded to a withered-leaf green, to poke his tiny nose into the bowl of pot-pourri on the centre table, which made him sneeze just exactly as ah! but I am forgetting never mind, I may as well finish the sentence just exactly as it made "us" sneeze now!

Mrs. Molesworth - Us : An Old Fashioned Story