o'er-proudly

Updated: July 3, 2025

And while he was in the office She came in. "Ah-h!" he said and then, "Your daughter, captain?" I said, "No my wife," maybe o'er-proudly. I was not ashamed of my years, for it's not years but age leastwise so I'd always held that sets a man back. Those lads of twenty-five or thirty, I could wear them down like chalk whetstones. Maybe she heard I don't know; but she didn't let on she did.

James B. (James Brendan) Connolly - Wide Courses