board-ship

Updated: May 25, 2025

"I have always understood," said Peter, who inherited his father's respect for platitudes, "that the country was much quieter than the town. I suppose you live in a town?" "I suppose I do," said the old lady. Peter put up his eyeglass indignantly, to quell this disrespectful old woman with a frigid look, modelled upon the expression of his board-ship hero. The door opened suddenly.

Mrs. Henry De La Pasture - Peter's Mother