gestureish

Updated: June 3, 2025

In manner he was bland, ornate, gestureish, ample; giving the sense that in nothing less commodious than a church could he loose his person and his powers to their full expression. He was genially familiar; the church-man who is a good fellow. Yet never did he let one forget the respect that was due his cloth. He was at present without a charge, as she learned later.

Leroy Scott - No. 13 Washington Square