sweet-love-in-the-springtime

Updated: July 20, 2025

"Well, Tooter, by George, I'm surprised at you," he commented sarcastically; "to think that at your advanced age, and you must be pretty well up in the fifties, you'd fall for the sweet-love-in-the-springtime stuff that gets the younger people, and that you'd engage yourself in marriage with a servant, too, and one who had previously refused you a couple of times.

James Francis Thierry - The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons: Being one of the exciting episodes in the career of the: famous detective Hemlock Holmes, as recorded by his friend: Dr. Watson