bill-don't-behave

Updated: May 28, 2025

Those women had not proved to be what she had expected grand dames of society to be. "I want to talk learning," she told herself, "and they talk hairpins and dirty dishes and Bill-don't-behave!" Now one of those women, a kind of a grass widow, Mrs. Plosell, had attracted Gus Carline, and when he came home from her house, he was always drunk. When Nelia remonstrated, he was ugly.

Raymond S. (Raymond Smiley) Spears - The River Prophet