nettlecraft

Updated: May 2, 2025

I had not the slightest compunction in handing Reggie Nettlecraft over to Sissie, nor in handing Sissie over to Reggie Nettlecraft. "Adapted for one another? That's just it. There, you hit the right nail plump on the cocoanut, Cumberground! But Sissie's an artful one, she is. She's playing for the other Johnnie.

Grant Allen - Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose

As it was, I went back to London the very next day, determined to renew my slight acquaintance with Reggie Nettlecraft. Fortunately, I had a good excuse for going to visit him.

Grant Allen - Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose

One of them was always addressed to Cecil Holsworthy, Esq." "And the other?" "Wasn't." "Did you note the name?" I asked, interested. "Yes; here it is." She handed me a slip of paper. I read it: "Reginald Nettlecraft, Esq., 427, Staples Inn, London." "What, Reggie Nettlecraft!" I cried, amused.

Grant Allen - Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose

Sissie was a minx, as Hilda rightly judged; while as for Nettlecraft well, if a public school and an English university leave a man a cad, a cad he will be, and there is nothing more to be said about it. I went straight off with the letters to Cecil Holsworthy.

Grant Allen - Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose

"I have a sort of inkling that Miss Montague likes HIM best; he is nearer her type; but she thinks Cecil Holsworthy the better match. Has Mr. Nettlecraft money?" "Not a penny, I should say. An allowance from his father, perhaps, who is a Lincolnshire parson; but otherwise, nothing." "Then, in my opinion, the young lady is playing for Mr. Holsworthy's money; failing which, she will decline upon Mr.

Grant Allen - Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose

So I went to his rooms in Staples Inn and reintroduced myself. Reggie Nettlecraft had grown up into an unwholesome, spotty, indeterminate young man, with a speckled necktie, and cuffs of which he was inordinately proud, and which he insisted on "flashing" every second minute.

Grant Allen - Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose

"You see," I said, maliciously; "I told you they never find us out, Holsworthy!" As for Reggie Nettlecraft and his wife, I should like to add that they are getting on quite as well as could be expected.

Grant Allen - Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose

"You would be doing wrong if you didn't, wrong to yourself; wrong to your family; wrong, if I may venture to say so, to Daphne; wrong even in the long run to the girl herself; for she is not fitted for you, and she IS fitted for Reggie Nettlecraft. Now, do as I bid you. Sit down at once and write her a letter from my dictation."

Grant Allen - Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose