newly-breeched

Updated: May 16, 2025

"Yes," he said, after a while, "I was with Gilbert in the Park this afternoon!" "Speak up, you fool!" he was saying to himself. "Here's the loveliest woman you've ever met waiting for you to speak to her, and all you can do is to repeat her phrases as if you were a newly-breeched brat aping its parent. Speak up, you fool!..." He felt his face turning red and hot.

St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine - Changing Winds: A Novel