self-helpful

Updated: May 29, 2025

So Halbert went and fetched him in, and he sat and had his breakfast between Alice and Sam. They were all delighted with him; such a child, and yet so bold and self-helpful, making himself quietly at home, and answering such questions as were put to him modestly and well. Would that all midshipmen were like him!

Henry Kingsley - Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn