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Updated: May 8, 2025
What a gelatine-backboned thing is man, who prides himself on his clear reason and becomes as wet blotting-paper at one glance from bright eyes! A moment before Mr Pickering had thought out the whole subject of woman and marriage in a few bold flashes of his capable brain, and thanked Providence that he was not as those men who take unto themselves wives to their undoing.
But she barged in and savaged poor old Derek till she absolutely made him break off the engagement." "If you call him 'poor old Derek' again, Freddie," said Wally viciously, "I'll drop you out of the window and throw your hat after you! If he's such a gelatine-backboned worm that his mother can . . ." "You don't know her, old thing! She's the original hellhound!" "I don't care what . . ."
Did he mention amongst other things that Reynolds was the worst idiot on the face of this so-called world? 'Something of the sort. 'So I should think. The late Reynolds was a perfect specimen of the gelatine-backboned worm. That's not my own, but it's the only description of him that really suits. Monk and Danvers and the mob in general used to do what they liked with him.
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