goal-getter

Updated: May 24, 2025

But he satisfied himself that they were not advertised in the Signal. Now, just as Mr Cowlishaw was personally conducting to the door the greatest goal-getter that the Five Towns had ever seen there happened another ring, and thus it fell out that Mr Cowlishaw found himself in the double difficulty of speeding his first visitor and welcoming his second all in the same breath.

Arnold Bennett - The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories