Crossword-Solution: NESSY 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

And he began, "Come now, Lucy, I say, that's hard, when 'twas Harold, and not me, and all those fellows--" "What fellows?" "Oh, Malvoisin and Nessy Horsman, you know." I knew they were the evil geniuses of Dermot's life.

Lord Malvoisin had been his first tempter as boys at their tutor's, and again in the Guards; and Ernest, or Nessy, Horsman was the mauvais sujet of the family, who never was heard of without some disgraceful story.

Now he has made himself one with you, and I thank you heartily for it." I felt rather than heard Nessy Horsman muttering, "pretty well for the large young man;" and it seemed to occur to no one that friends, position, and all had been gained for Eustace by Harold himself.

The only person she seemed able to endure was Nessy Horsman, who was allowed to haunt his cousin Randal's house, and who delighted in shocking the decorous monotony of the trio of sisters, finding the vehement little Australian far more entertaining, while, whether he teased or stimulated her, she found him the least uncongenial being she met in Paddington.

Randall had come down full of the report; that Nessy had heard of it, and, on Sunday afternoon, had teased Dora about it to such a degree that she had leaped up from the sofa and actually boxed his ears, after which she had gone into such a paroxysm of tears and sobs that she had been sent to bed, and in the morning the family mind began to perceive she was really ill.