morellists

Updated: May 21, 2025

Everything in English is one or the other. We will not fall out, like the Morellists, over an attribution. The point is that I should be a good judge of hats." He took snuff. "It's a shame you haven't a decent snuff-box," Beatrice observed, with an eye on the enamelled wooden one, cheap and shabby, from which he helped himself. "The box is but the guinea-stamp; the snuff's the thing.

Henry Harland - The Cardinal's Snuff-Box