Execrable Frippery: Perry 352: The Country Mouse and the City Mouse
“Then ye find too late ye’ve insulted them,—or been quietly classified, or slander’d,—never knowing quite which word or gesture has done the job….”
” ‘Tis call’d, I believe, Being from the Country…?”
Mason lets his head abrubtly drop. “Yet, I thought I had quite got the Thames-side way of…