delauncy

Updated: May 27, 2025

She felt sure now of his genius. "We must feel our way," said Palmerston; "I believe in flyin' as high as you like so long as you're on safe ground. Of course," he went on, "there is a danger. I don't know who really lives in Grovener Square at Number 20; but they're almost sure not to be called Delauncy, and so there's no real hurt to their feelin's." "Mrs Bowldler might know."

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Hocken and Hunken