Answer:
I believe you're talking about a quote from the poem "Highway men" by Alfred Noyes that I'll put below.
Explanation:
“And still on a winter's night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
When the road is a gypsy's ribbon looping the purple moor,
The highwayman comes riding--
Riding--riding--
The highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.
Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard,
He taps with his whip on the shutters, but all is locked and barred,
He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord's black-eyed daughter--
Bess, the landlord's daughter--
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.”
Adding an apostrophe and an "s"
What book are you reading...not enough info is givin:(
<span>Gogol chose to end the story the way he did to carry the straightforward and matter-of-fact tone the end of the text. The story of the nose by Gogol is obviously funny but is narrated in an unemotional tone giving doubts on the humor of the story. And to end the story with the same tone he started it, Gogol did just what he did. </span>
