Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit, Chapter 24
'Mr F. was so devoted to me that he never could bear me out of his sight,’ said Flora, ‘though of course I am unable to say how long that might have lasted if he hadn’t been cut short while I was a new broom, worthy man but not poetical manly prose but not romance.'
What does "worthy man but not poetical manly prose but not romance" mean?