My Family and Other Animals

Gerald Durrell, 1956
Puffin, 2006

2. The Strawberry-Pink Villa

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Humming-bird hawk-moths, sleek and neat neat, whipped up and down the paths with a fussy efficiency, pausing occasionally on speed-misty wings to lower a long, slender proboscis into a bloom.

Memoirs
Marc Girod