market-merriness

Updated: May 6, 2025

She's a back-bred un, he said, giving me a knowing wink as he pulled off his calf-skin waistcoat and tossed it on to a chair at the further end of the room with a certainty of aim that would have been marvellous, even had he been entirely free from market-merriness.

Theodore Watts-Dunton - Aylwin