idiot-child

Updated: May 14, 2025

We don't do it in Thamesfontein, my noble buccaneer not even in Barry Whalen's mansion in Ladbroke Square, where Barry Whalen, Esq., puts his silk hat on the hall table, and and, 'If you please, sir, your bath is ready'! ... Don't be an idiot-child, Barry, and don't spoil my best sentences when I let myself go.

Gilbert Parker - The Judgment House