black-calved

Updated: June 19, 2025

"Get my bill," he said shortly to Joseph as he sank into the gilded fauteuil. "Yes, sir." One advantage of a valet, he discovered, is that you can order him to do things which to do yourself would more than exhaust your moral courage. The black-calved gentleman-in-waiting brought the bill. It lay on a salver and was folded, conceivably so as to break the shock of it to the recipient.

Arnold Bennett - The Regent