show-children

Updated: May 19, 2025

She had heard tell indeed, it was an article of faith among the show-children with whom she had been brought up that the sons and daughters of the well-to-do followed weird ways and practised discomfortable habits attended public worship on Sundays, for instance, walking two and two in stiff raiment. But these children were patently very far from well-to-do.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - True Tilda