orpington-smith

Updated: June 29, 2025

In an ordinary way you could do it on your head or in your sleep; but the sudden demand gives you a mental jerk that makes the wretched word a hopeless chaos of r's and l's, and the more you try to sort them out the less convincing do they seem. Or walking with a friend you meet at a turn in the street that excellent woman, Mrs. Orpington-Smith.

A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner - Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough