debutt

Updated: May 7, 2025

To be frank with you, Sir George, when I first had the honour of your acquaintance, I did not think you had so much in you. There was a sort of English attention to small wares, a species of knee-buckleism about your debutt, as Mr. Dodge calls it, that made me distrust your being the whole-souled and one-idea'd man I find you really are." "Oh! I do like my comforts," said Sir George, laughing.

James Fenimore Cooper - Homeward Bound : or, the Chase