A. M. Burrage, Volume 10 by A. M. Burrage

Author:A. M. Burrage [Anonymous]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Deadtree Publishing
Published: 2013-10-24T16:00:00+00:00

A whale! The expression took Everton back a very long way down the level road of the spent years; took him, indeed, to a nursery in a solid respectable house in a Belgravian square, where he had heard the word used in that same sense for the first time. His sister Gertrude, aged ten, notorious in those days for picking up loose expressions, announced that she was

getting to be a whale at French. Yes, in those days an expert was a ‘whale’ or a ‘don’; not, as he is today, a ‘stout fellow’. But who was a ‘whale’ nowadays? It was years since he had heard the term.

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