pawssing

Updated: May 8, 2025

'Oh, what shame! said Jean, full of sympathy. 'He's a dear that funny cockney. But he had been dashed for the merest moment. 'I'm not 'ere to talk grammar, but to talk Reform. I ain't defendin' my grammar, he said, on second thoughts, 'but I'll say in pawssing that if my mother 'ad 'ad 'er rights, maybe my grammar would 'ave been better. It was a thrust that seemed to go home.

Elizabeth Robins - The Convert