dry-and-dusty

Updated: May 4, 2025

So nearly perfect was this letter that it caused her to refer to me, in a later communication to Miss Caroline, as "your dry-and-dusty counting-machine of a lawyer, who doubtless considers the multiplication table as a cycle of sonnets." That, after I had merely determined to meet her palpable needs and had signed myself her obedient servant! But I had convinced her.

Harry Leon Wilson - The Boss of Little Arcady