parson-adventurers

Updated: May 23, 2025

Even if I found an apparently good certificate, how was I to prove that it was not one of those lying certificates of marriages that had never taken place? Again, what kind of registers could posterity expect from these parson-adventurers, very few of whom could spell, and most of whom lived in a chronic state of drunkenness?

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - Birds of Prey