standoffish quotes

Said Jerome K. Jerome to Ford Madox Ford, 'There's something, old boy, that I've always abhorred: When people address me and call me'Jerome', Are they being standoffish, or too much at home?' Said Ford,'I agree; It's the same thing with me.'

-Cole,William
'Mutual Problem', collected in The Oxford Book of  American Light Verse (1979).

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