at-heel

Updated: June 6, 2025

Renard had driven briskly up to a low, rambling facade parallel with the quays. It was the "Cheval Blanc." A crowd assembled on the instant, as if appearing according to command. "Allons n'encombrez pas ces dames!" cried a very smart individual, in striking contrast to the down at-heel air of the hotel a personage who took high-handed possession of us and our traps.

Anna Bowman Dodd - In and out of Three Normady Inns