carefully-careless

Updated: May 19, 2025

Jim had grown homelier and shabbier with his advancing years; Claud more and more exquisitely finished, until he now stood, in his carefully-careless costume his short, pointed beard the same tone of silver-grey as his flannel suit, his finely-chiselled features the hue of old ivory a perfect model of patrician 'form'. Only there was plenty of vigour still manifest in the bushman's bony frame, while the man of the world wore a valetudinarian air, leaning on the arm of his regal, upright wife.

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