child-acrobat

Updated: May 19, 2025

I reckon she don't attend circuses nor the Minister neither an' that Child-Acrobat turn fairly fetched 'em. They set it down to the 'fects of grace. I 'eard them talkin' it over, an' that was 'ow the Minister put it whatever 'e meant." "Well, but wasn't it?" Arthur Miles had come back from the window, and stood at the foot of the bed in a nightshirt many sizes too large for him. "Wasn't it wot?"

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - True Tilda