statement-at-large

Updated: June 26, 2025

Here Stair made an indefinite noise in his throat, which, if he could have spoken, would have been an eloquent statement-at-large of the state of his affections. He cursed himself for his imbecility. Louis Raincy, he felt sure, would have found the right thing to say even the Poor Scholar not to say any of the fine gentlemen whom Patsy had left behind in London. After all she had left them.

S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett - Patsy