un-clawbonnyish

Updated: September 16, 2025

I fancied she wished to say, "There, Master Miles, you have been in London, and on a desert island in the South Seas the very extremes of human habits and have got to be so sophisticated, so very un-Clawbonnyish, as to feel the necessity of a manner, in the young ladies with whom you associate." The notion nettled me to a degree that induced me to pretend duty, and to hurry down to the ship.

James Fenimore Cooper - Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale