peekadeely

Updated: May 5, 2025

If it hadn't been for the rain, my little Duke, I should have been in London within a week, my grenadiers would have been camping in your Rue Peekadeely, and the Old Guard all over everywhere else." "You must have had a gay army, then," laughed Caesar. "What are French soldiers made of, that they can't stand the wet unshrunk linen or flannel?"

John Kendrick Bangs - The Pursuit of the House-Boat

If it hadn't been for the rain, my little Duke, I should have been in London within a week, my grenadiers would have been camping in your Rue Peekadeely, and the Old Guard all over everywhere else." "You must have had a gay army, then," laughed Cæsar. "What are French soldiers made of, that they can't stand the wet unshrunk linen or flannel?"

John Kendrick Bangs - The Pursuit of the House-Boat: Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq.