count-in-disguise

Updated: January 13, 2026

The woman was Jennie, the Oakland baker's only daughter, who had no lack of country beaus, but was flattered by the attentions of one of the Jenks-Smith's butlers, whose irreproachable manners of the count-in-disguise variety made the native youths appear indeed uncouth.

Mabel Osgood Wright - People of the Whirlpool