d-l-f-ld

Updated: May 29, 2025

It is a melancholy fact, which those best acquainted with London society can vouch for, that her 'swells' are a very ephemeral race. Take the last five-and-twenty years say from the days of the Golden Ball and Pea-green Hayne down to those of Molly C l and Mr. D-l-f-ld and see what a succession of joyous no, not joyous, but rattling, careless, dashing, sixty-percenting youths we have had.

Robert Smith Surtees - Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour