in-hand

Updated: July 27, 2025

They were all grown up, at least to look at, though one was not yet "out." Clarissa, the next, a girl of eighteen, came and sat down by him and talked to him, for which he felt very grateful, for he was beginning to wish the floor to open and let him through. At first, indeed, she talked of things he knew nothing about: balls, and levees, and the four- in-hand club, and the Orleans.

Lewis Hough - Dr. Jolliffe's Boys