unbirched

Updated: May 28, 2025

I passed my eye instead smiling, BIEN ENTENDU round the ring of waiting faces, saw that there was no one except De Pombal I had cause to fear; and then at last I rose and looked at the fool with the grim face I have known impose on older and wiser men. 'Marked cards, M. l'Anglais? I said, with a chilling sneer. 'They are used, I am told, to trap players not unbirched schoolboys.

Stanley John Weyman - Under the Red Robe