toddlum

Updated: May 11, 2025

"Come along, then, Mademoiselle Destructiveness!" cried Gethryn, tossing his mask and field glass onto a chair, where they were appropriated by Clifford, who spent the next half hour in staring across at good old Colonel Toddlum and his frisky companion an attention which drove the poor old gentleman almost frantic with suspicion, for he was a married man, bless his soul! and a pew-holder in the American Church.

Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers - In the Quarter