Jackanapes. Daddy Darwin's dovecot. The story of a short life (1887)
Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885, Eden, Horatia K. F. Gatty · Boston, Roberts Brothers · leaf 163
, andMiss Jessamine calls to the Postman to requestLollo to be kind enough to stop, while she isfumbling for something which always hangs by herside, and has got entangled with her spectacles. It is a twopenny trumpet, bought years ago in JACKANAPES. the village fair; and over it she and Captain… … never vanquished — Lollo the tender servant of hisold mistress. And Lollos ears twitch at everymention of his name. Their hearer does not speak, but he never moveshis eyes from the trumpet; and when the tal-e is told,he lifts Miss Jessamines hand and presses his heavyblack mustache in silence to…
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