would-as

Updated: June 1, 2025

"And so," continued Miss Blivens, "it was with the Henshaw words still in my ears that I first came into the presence of Merton Gill, feeling that he would-as he at once finely did put me at my ease. Simple, unaffected, modest, he is one whom success has not spoiled.

Harry Leon Wilson - Merton of the Movies