young-man-of-the-world

Updated: May 26, 2025

He answered with a dazzling young-man-of-the-world bow and air. He had not been to Eton and Oxford and touched the outskirts of two or three London seasons, as a boy beauty and a modest Apollo Belvidere in his teens, without learning a number of pleasant little ways. "You are exactly as you were the morning you came into the Gardens dressed in crocuses and daffodils.

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Robin