deegnity

Updated: June 11, 2025

'Ye ken, he said, pausing temporarily and looking at Selwyn, 'yon should be rendered wi' proper deegnity. With which explanatory comment he finished the last six notes, and solemnly replaced the chart on the ledge behind him, as if it were a copy of Handel's Messiah.

Arthur Beverley Baxter - The Parts Men Play