ditch-trotting

Updated: July 26, 2025

Saying which, I laid aside my staff, and buttoned up my coat. "Why," he began, "you infernally low, dusty, ditch-trotting blackguard " But his companion, who had been regarding me very closely, twitched him by the sleeve, and whispered something in his ear. Whatever it was it affected my antagonist strangely, for he grew suddenly very red, and then very white, and abruptly turned his back upon me.

Jeffery Farnol - The Broad Highway