bag-of-tricks

Updated: June 10, 2025

Later, they would have their car like other people, but there was no need for it at present, and it was neither the time nor the occasion to exhibit a tendency to extravagance. In the matter of "front" he knew precisely where to leave off. In a certain small anxious bag-of-tricks way he was clever. But not clever enough. He knew nothing of Alexina beneath her shining surface.

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton - The Sisters-In-Law