winking-dignity

Updated: May 10, 2025

"You're a trump!" said the burglar. "Well," exclaimed the clerk, with a tremendous assumption of winking-dignity, "ishn't zhat zactly what I was goin' to shay, if you'd on'y listen. `What'll you 'ave to drink! jus' so. Now, if you want to argue it out properly, you'll "

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - The Young Trawler